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נָדַר
nâdar · Hebrew · Strong's H5087 · 31 occurrences
The KJV renders 3 different Hebrew and Greek words as “vow”
What it means
to promise (pos., to do or give something to God)
a primitive root;
How the KJV renders it
vow
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“vow”
also renders euchḗ (G2171), neder (H5088)
Answers that weigh this word
Where it appears
31 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 28 verses shown.
1 Samuel 1:11 · HC/Vqw3fs
She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”
2 Samuel 15:7 · HVqp1cs
At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.
2 Samuel 15:8 · HVqp3ms
For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’”
Deuteronomy 12:11 · HVqi2mp
then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 12:17 · HVqi2ms
You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free will offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;
Deuteronomy 23:21 · HVqi2ms
When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it, for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
Deuteronomy 23:22 HR/VqcDeuteronomy 23:23 HVqp2msEcclesiastes 5:4 HVqi2msEcclesiastes 5:5 HR/Tr/Vqi2msGenesis 28:20 HC/Vqw3msGenesis 31:13 HVqp2msIsaiah 19:21 HC/Vqq3cpJudges 11:30 HC/Vqw3msJudges 11:39 HVqp3msJeremiah 44:25 HVqp1cpJonah 1:16 HC/Vqw3mpJonah 2:9 HVqp1csLeviticus 27:8 HTd/VqrmsaMalachi 1:14 HC/VqrmsaNumbers 6:2 HR/VqcNumbers 6:21 HVqi3msNumbers 21:2 HC/Vqw3msNumbers 30:2 HVqi3msNumbers 30:3 HVqi3fsNumbers 30:10 HVqp3fsPsalm 76:11 HVqv2mpPsalm 132:2 HVqp3ms
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