STRONGS NUMBER H6938


Word Summary
Qedar: perhaps "swarthy", a son of Ishmael, also his desc
Original Word: קֵדָר
Transliteration: Qedar
Phonetic Spelling: (kay-dawr')
Part of Speech: proper name, of a people
Short Definition: perhaps "swarthy", a son of Ishmael, also his desc
Meaning: Kedar -- perhaps "swarthy", a son of Ishmael, also his desc
Strong's Concordance
Kedar

From qadar; dusky (of the skin or the tent); Kedar, a son of Ishmael; also (collectively) Bedouin (as his descendants or representatives) -- Kedar.

see HEBREW qadar

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6938. Qedar

קֵדָרproper name, of a people (swarthy? black-tented?); Κηδαρ:

1 tribe of nomads in Arabian desert Isaiah 21:16; 42:11 (with verb feminine), 60:7, Jeremiah 2:10; 49:28 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 27:21; ׳בְּנֵיקֿIsaiah 21:17; ק ׳אָהֳלֵיPsalm 120:5; Song of Solomon 1:5 (made of black goat-skins JacobBeduinenleben (2), 41 or black woven stuff DoughtyArab. Des. i. 224 f.; simile of swarthy hue).

2 ancestor of

1, son of Ishmael, Genesis 25:13 = 1 Chronicles 1:29. — compare Assyrian †idru COTGenesis 25:13, PlinNH see 11 -12 Cedrei; also Sabean tribe-name קדר‎ Hal623 (compare DHMZMG xxxvii (1883), 14).