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Strong's #5710: `adah (pronounced aw-daw')

a primitive root; to advance, i.e. pass on or continue; causatively, to remove; specifically, to bedeck (i.e. bring an ornament upon):--adorn, deck (self), pass by, take away.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛âdâh

1) to pass on, advance, go on, pass by, remove

1a) (Qal) to pass on, put on

1b) (Hiphil) to remove

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 10 times:

Job 28:8: "trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by"
Job 40:10: " Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty."
Proverbs 25:20: " As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon niter, so is he that singeth"
Isaiah 61:10: "as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels."
Jeremiah 4:30: "thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest"
Jeremiah 31:4: "O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry."
Ezekiel 16:11: " I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on"
Ezekiel 16:13: " Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; thou didst eat"
Ezekiel 23:40: "for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,"
Hosea 2:13: "of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after"









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