אֲתַר
ʼăthar · H870 · Aramaic · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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place, site
A location associated with a certain object
ExamplesEzra 5:15 ‘And he said to him, “Take these utensils, go and deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem, and have the house of God rebuilt in its place.”
Ezra 6:3 “In the first year of King Cyrus, Cyrus the king issued a decree: ‘Concerning the house of God in Jerusalem, let the temple, the place where sacrifices are offered, be rebuilt, and let its foundations be repaired, its height being sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits,
Ezra 6:5 ‘Also the gold and silver utensils of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, are to be returned and brought to their places in the temple in Jerusalem; and you shall put them in the house of God.’
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- הּher 2
- הוּhis 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דְּבַחoffer 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שְׁכַחfind 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 4
- לto/for 2
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
- τόπος tópos · G5117 · space, place, room
- אֲתַר (ʼăthar, H870) denotes 'place' or 'after' in Aramaic contexts, while τόπος (tópos, G5117) refers specifically to a spatial location or spot; the two overlap in their shared semantic domain of physical place/location, with τόπος serving as the standard Greek rendering of the spatial 'place' sense of אֲתַר in LXX alignment contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Space002002001017
- Ezra 6:3 records Cyrus's decree concerning the temple, “let the temple, the place where sacrifices are offered, be rebuilt, and let its foundations be repaired, its height being sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits.”
- Timers004009
- Daniel 7:6 recounts Daniel's vision, “After this I kept looking, and behold, another one, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it.”
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H870. athar אֲתַר noun masculine place (so Egyptian Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene; ᵑ9;…
אֲתַר noun masculine place (so Egyptian Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene; ᵑ9; Syriac place; Zinjirli אשר Lzb229f.; Arabic footstep; compare Hebrew אֲשׁוּר and below אֲשֶׁר); — place a. Dan 2:35 לְהוֺן לָאהִֿשְׁתְּכַח וְכָלאֲֿחַר, Ezr 5:15 עַלאַֿתְרֵהּ יִתְבְנֵא אֱלָהָא וּבֵית, Ezr 6:3, Ezr 6:5, Ezr 6:7. Hence
b. בָּאתַר (Dan 7:6 Baer בָּתַר) after (literally in the track of: so Zinjirli באשר (Cooke160f., 170), Palmyrene, בָּתַר ᵑ9, Syriac ), דְּנָה בָּאתַר after this, Dan 7:6-7, suffix Dan 2:39 וּבָֽתָרָךְ and after thee.
אַתַּ֫רוּ see נתר.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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