Lexical Definition

‎עֲדַר‎ ʻădar (aw-dar') to help ^H:V
a primitive root

dig, fail, keep (rank), lack.

• to arrange as a battle, a vineyard (to hoe)
• hence, to muster and so to miss (or find wanting)

1) to help
1a) (Qal) to help
2) to hoe
2a) (Niphal) to be hoed
3) to be lacking, fail
3a)(Niphal)
3b1) to be lacking
3b1) to leave lacking
3b) (Piel) to leave lacking

See Greek: αἴρω · ἀπόλλυμι · ἀροτριόω · δοξάζω · λανθάνω · σκάπτω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [‎עָדַר‎] verb probably (si vera lectio) help (Aramaic loan-word, Syriac ᵑ7 ‎עֲדַר‎ (rare) = Hebrew ‎עזר‎ q. v.; > Thes, assuming meaning arrange, order); —

Qal Infinitive cstr. ‎לַעֲדֹר‎ 1Chr 12:34* (Baer Ginsb; van d. H. v.1Chr 12:33* this meaning also ᵐ5 ᵑ9); but < Manuscripts ‎לַעֲוֺר‎ (compare v.1Chr 12:18* v.1Chr 12:22* v.1Chr 12:23*, van d. H. v.1Chr 12:17* v.1Chr 12:21* v.1Chr 12:22*), so Kau Buhl; Participle plural construct ‎עֹדְרֵי מַעֲרָכָה‎ v.1Chr 12:39* (van d. H. v.1Chr 12:38*), read ‎עֹרְכֵי‎ (q. v. v.1Chr 12:34*) ᵐ5 Kau; see ‎ערך‎.

II. [‎עָדַר‎] verb hoe (Late Hebrew id.; so Arabic (in Syria) , pick, hoe, Cuche ( also Dozy^{ii. 101 b}); compare Fl^{Kl. Schr. ii. 628}); —

Niph`al Imperfect 3 masculine singular ‎לֹא יֵעָדֵר‎ Isa 5:6 it (the vineyard) shall not be hoed (|| ‎יִזָּמֵר‎); 3 masculine plural ‎כַּמַּעְדֵּר יֵעָדֵר֑וּן‎ Isa 7:25 which used to be hoed with the hoe (subject ‎הֶהָרִים‎).

III. [‎עָדַר‎] verb Niph`al be lacking, fail (Arabic remain or lag behind); —

Niph`al Perfect, all with ‎לֹא‎ 3 masculine singular ‎נֶעְדַּר לָהֶם‎ 1Sam 30:19 not anything was lacking to them; ‎נֶעְדָּ֑ר‎ none was lacking 2Sam 17:22; Isa 40:25 of ‎׳‎‎י‎, Zeph 3:5 he doth not fail; 3 feminine singular ‎נֶעְדָּ֔רָה‎ Isa 34:16 no wild beast is lacking. Participle feminine ‎נֶעְדֶּ֫רֶת‎ Isa 59:15 truth has become lacking. Pi`el Imperfect 3 masculine plural ‎לֹא יְעֲדְּרוּ דָּבָּ֑ר‎ 1Kgs 5:7* they left nothing lacking.

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