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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Adar (Name of the 12th month)

Twelfth month, late winter, and Purim falls in it, which is the whole reason Esther names it at all.

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Twelfth month, late winter, and Purim falls in it, which is the whole reason Esther names it at all.

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Adar is the twelfth month of the Hebrew calendar, roughly corresponding to late winter, and it's the month in which the events of Purim take place in the book of Esther.

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H143 · H144

Where it appears
  • Esther 3:7
  • Esther 3:13
  • Esther 8:12
  • Esther 9:1
  • Esther 9:15
  • Esther 9:17
  • Esther 9:19
  • Esther 9:21
  • Ezra 6:15

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