עֵדָה
ʻêdâh · H5713 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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community, congregation, company, swarm, herd
A relatively large group of people with a common history or purpose
ExamplesJeremiah 6:18 “Therefore hear, you nations, And know, you congregation, what is among them.
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evidence, proof
An animate or inanimate object that functions as evidence or proof that something has taken place or that some decision has been made
ExamplesGenesis 21:30 He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness for me, that I dug this well.”
Genesis 31:52 “This heap is a witness, and the memorial stone is a witness, that I will not pass by this heap to you for harm, and you will not pass by this heap and this memorial stone to me, for harm.
Joshua 24:27 Then Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, because it has heard all the words of the LORD which He spoke to us; so it shall be a witness against you, so that you do not deny your God.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַצֵּבָהsacred pillar, pillar 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 6
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- μαρτύριον martýrion · G3142 · to witness, testimony, witness
- Greek μαρτύριον denotes evidence or testimony given as witness, directly corresponding to Hebrew עֵדָה's core sense of testimony/witness, with both terms extending to reference the Decalogue tablets as 'testimony' in tabernacle contexts.
Semantic domains 5 entries
- Groups001001003004
- עֵד here denotes an assembled group addressed collectively, illustrated at Jeremiah 6:18 ("know, you congregation, what is among them"), where the term is used in direct address to a gathered community.
- Objects001
- עֵדָה (ʻêdâh, H5713) is a rare orthographic variant occurring only 4 times, with insufficient independent attestation of its own sense to confirm the "Objects" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with the far more frequent עֵדָה (ʻêdâh, H5712) ("congregation," 139 occurrences) in the source data and reflects עֵדָה (ʻêdâh, H5712)'s own attested sense, not an independently confirmed sense of עֵדָה (ʻêdâh, H5713).
- Laws002003003016
- עֵד denotes a witness — a person or a physical object standing as legal testimony to an agreement — illustrated at Genesis 21:30 ("that it may be a witness for me, that I dug this well") and Genesis 31:52 ("this heap is a witness, and the memorial stone is a witness"), establishing evidentiary proof of a covenant or transaction.
- Scrolls001003001001014
- עֵדָה (ʻêdâh, H5713)'s own occurrences give no independent basis for the "Scrolls" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with עֵדוּת (ʻêdûwth, H5715) and שׁוּשַׁן עֵדוּת (Shûwshan ʻÊdûwth, H7802) in the source data and reflects those partners' own senses (עֵדוּת (ʻêdûwth, H5715) denotes a written testimony/precept), not an independently confirmed sense of עֵדָה (ʻêdâh, H5713).
- Sing002004001009006
- עֵדָה (ʻêdâh, H5713)'s own occurrences give no independent basis for the "Sing" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with עֵדוּת (ʻêdûwth, H5715) and שׁוּשַׁן עֵדוּת (Shûwshan ʻÊdûwth, H7802) in the source data and reflects those partners' own senses (עֵדוּת (ʻêdûwth, H5715) denotes a written testimony/precept), not an independently confirmed sense of עֵדָה (ʻêdâh, H5713).
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5713. edah II. עֵדָה noun feminine testimony, witness, of things (only E); — Gen 21:30;…
II. עֵדָה noun feminine testimony, witness, of things (only E); — Gen 21:30; Gen 31:52; Jos 24:27 (twice in verse) (J uses עֵד for feminine things). — I. עֵדָה see יעד.
III. [עֵדָה] noun feminine only plural ᵑ0 testimonies (always of laws as divine testimonies or solemn charges); — plural absolute עֵדֹת Deu 4:45; Deu 6:20; suffix (of ׳י), עְדֹתִי Psa 132:12 (Ges§ 91n.), עֵדֹתָיו Deu 6:17; Psa 25:10; Psa 99:7; Psa 119:2, עֵדוֺתָיו Psa 78:56; עֵדֹתֶיךָ Psa 93:5; Psa 119:22; Psa 119:24; Psa 119:46; Psa 119:59; Psa 119:79; Psa 119:95; Psa 119:119; Psa 119:125; Psa 119:138; Psa 119:146; Psa 119:152; Psa 119:167; Psa 119:168 (ᵑ0 pointing artificial, derived probably from עֵדוּת, reading עֵדֻת for עֵדֹת, or regarding עֵדֹת as contracted from עֵדְוֺת, plural of עֵדוּת [Sta§ 320 b SS Buhl]; see also DrDeu 4:45; Deu 4:45; Deu 6:17, Deu 6:20 are redactional).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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