Edah עֵדָה

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Edah
עֵדָה
Transliterationedah
Strong's numberH5712
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechfeminine noun
Glosscongregation
Occurrences149 in 140 verses
Most frequent inNumbers (75)

Edah (Hebrew עֵדָה, Strong's H5712) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “congregation”. It occurs 149 times in 140 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

congregation, gathering

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVcongregation (124), company (13), assembly (8), people (1), swarm (1), multitude (1), assemblies (1)
BSBcongregation (107), assembly (15), your followers (3), his followers (2), followers (2), band (2), among the congregation (1), whose followers (1), upon the congregation (1), swarm (1), company (1), my family (1), and 7 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Edah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Joshua

Judges

1 Kings

2 Chronicles

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Jeremiah

Hosea

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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