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Lexicon :: Strong's H6938 - qēḏār

Aa
קֵדָר
Transliteration
qēḏār
Pronunciation
kay-dawr'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun, proper noun with reference to people
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

קֵדָר Qêdâr, kay-dawr'; from H6937; dusky (of the skin or the tent); Kedar, a son of Ishmael; also (collectively) Bedouin (as his descendants or representatives):—Kedar.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's H6938 in the following manner: Kedar (12x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's H6938 in the following manner: Kedar (12x).

  1. Kedar = "dark"

    proper masculine noun

    1. a son of Ishmael

      proper noun with reference to people

    2. the descendants of Kedar

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
קֵדָר Qêdâr, kay-dawr'; from H6937; dusky (of the skin or the tent); Kedar, a son of Ishmael; also (collectively) Bedouin (as his descendants or representatives):—Kedar.
STRONGS H6938: Abbreviations
† קֵדָר proper name, of a people (swarthy? black-tented?); Κηδαρ:
1. tribe of nomads in Arabian desert Isaiah 21:16; Isaiah 42:11 (with verb feminine), Isaiah 60:7, Jeremiah 2:10; Jeremiah 49:28 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 27:21; בְּנֵיקֿ׳ Isaiah 21:17; אָהֳלֵי ק׳ Psalm 120:5; Songs 1:5 (made of black goat-skins JacobBeduinenleben (2), 41 or black woven stuff DoughtyArab. Des. i. 224 f.; simile of swarthy hue).
2. ancestor of 1. (above), son of Ishmael, Genesis 25:13 = 1 Chronicles 1:29. — compare Assyrian Ḳidru COTGenesis 25:13, PlinNH see 11 -12 Cedrei; also Sabean tribe-name קדר Hal623 (compare DHMZMG xxxvii (1883), 14).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

25:13; 25:13

1 Chronicles

1:29

Psalms

120:5

Song of Songs

1:5

Isaiah

21:16; 21:17; 42:11; 60:7

Jeremiah

2:10; 49:28

Ezekiel

27:21

H6938

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6938 matches the Hebrew קֵדָר (qēḏār),
which occurs 12 times in 11 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:13 - These are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their generations: Ishmael's first son was Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:29 - These are their generations: the oldest son of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:5 - Sorrow is mine because I am strange in Meshech, and living in the tents of Kedar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:5 - I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:16 - For so has the Lord said to me, In a year, by the years of a servant working for payment, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:17 - And the rest of the bowmen, the men of war of the children of Kedar, will be small in number: for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:11 - Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:7 - All the flocks of Kedar will come together to you, the sheep of Nebaioth will be ready for your need; they will be pleasing offerings on my altar, and my house of prayer will be beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:10 - For go over to the sea-lands of Kittim and see; send to Kedar and give deep thought to it; and see if there has ever been such a thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:28 - About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame. This is what the Lord has said: Up! go against Kedar, and make an attack on the children of the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:21 - Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar did business with you; in lambs and sheep and goats, in these they did business with you.
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