the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Strong's #6938 - קֵדָר
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- Kedar = "dark"
- n pr m
- a son of Ishmael
- n pr people
- the descendants of Kedar
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this Strong's Number
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; Song of Solomon 1:5 (made of black goat-skins Jacob Beduinenleben (2), 41 or black woven stuff Doughty Arab. Des. i. 224f.; simile of swarthy hue).
2 ancestor of
1, son of Ishmael, Genesis 25:13 = 1 Chronicles 1:29. — compare Assyrian †idru COT Genesis 25:13, Plin NH see 11 -12 Cedrei; also Sabean tribe-name קדר Hal623 (compare DHM ZMG xxxvii (1883), 14).
קֵדָר (“black skin,” “black skinned man,”) [Kedar], pr.n. of a son of Ishmael, Genesis 25:13 and of an Arabian tribe sprung from him, Song of Solomon 1:5; Isaiah 42:11 (where it is joined with a fem.); 60:7 Jeremiah 49:28; Ezekiel 27:21 more fully called בְּנֵי קֵדָר Isaiah 21:17 by Pliny (H. N. 5:11), Cedrei. The Rabbins call all the Arabians universally by this name; whence לשון קדר Rabbin. used of the Arabic language.
