נֶדֶר

neder · Hebrew · Strong's H5088 · 60 occurrences

The KJV renders 3 different Hebrew and Greek words as “vow”

What it means

a promise (to God); also (concretely) a thing promised

or נֵדֶר; from H5087 (נָדַר);

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), nâdar (H5087)

Answers that weigh this word

Where it appears

60 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 57 verses shown.

1 Samuel 1:11 · HNcmsa

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.”

1 Samuel 1:21 · HNcmsc/Sp3ms

The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice and his vow.

2 Samuel 15:7 · HNcmsc/Sp1cs

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 · HNcmsa

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 12:6 · HC/Ncmpc/Sp2mp

You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock there.

Deuteronomy 12:11 · HNcmpc/Sp2mp

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 HNcmpc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 12:26 HC/Ncmpc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 23:18 HNcmsaDeuteronomy 23:21 HNcmsaEcclesiastes 5:4 HNcmsaGenesis 28:20 HNcmsaGenesis 31:13 HNcmsaIsaiah 19:21 HNcmsaJudges 11:30 HNcmsaJudges 11:39 HNcmsc/Sp3msJeremiah 44:25 HNcmpc/Sp1cpJob 22:27 HC/Ncmpc/Sp2msJonah 1:16 HNcmpaLeviticus 7:16 HNcmsaLeviticus 22:18 HNcmpc/Sp3mpLeviticus 22:21 HNcmsaLeviticus 22:23 HC/R/NcmsaLeviticus 23:38 HNcmpc/Sp2mpLeviticus 27:2 HNcmsaNahum 1:15 HNcmpc/Sp2fsNumbers 6:2 HNcmscNumbers 6:5 HNcmscNumbers 6:21 HNcmsc/Sp3msNumbers 15:3 HNcmsaNumbers 15:8 HNcmsaNumbers 21:2 HNcmsaNumbers 29:39 HR/Ncmpc/Sp2mpNumbers 30:2 HNcmsaNumbers 30:3 HNcmsaNumbers 30:4 HNcmpc/Sp3fsNumbers 30:5 HNcmpc/Sp3fsNumbers 30:6 HC/Ncmpc/Sp3fsNumbers 30:7 HNcmpc/Sp3fsNumbers 30:8 HNcmsc/Sp3fsNumbers 30:9 HC/NcmscNumbers 30:11 HNcmpc/Sp3fsNumbers 30:12 HR/Ncmpc/Sp3fsNumbers 30:13 HNcmsaNumbers 30:14 HNcmpc/Sp3fsProverbs 7:14 HNcmpc/Sp1csProverbs 20:25 HNcmpaProverbs 31:2 HNcmpc/Sp1csPsalm 22:25 HNcmpc/Sp1csPsalm 50:14 HNcmpc/Sp2msPsalm 56:12 HNcmpc/Sp2msPsalm 61:5 HR/Ncmpc/Sp1csPsalm 61:8 HNcmpc/Sp1csPsalm 65:1 HNcmsaPsalm 66:13 HNcmpc/Sp1csPsalm 116:14 HNcmpc/Sp1csPsalm 116:18 HNcmpc/Sp1cs

Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.