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אֲדָר

a.dar

Adar

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Strong’s H143Proper name, a title8 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

adar8

In the text

Esther 3:7אֲדָר ס
In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אֲדָר n.pr.[m.] 12th (Babylonian) month = Feb.-Mar.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.