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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Adar \A"dar\, n. [Heb. ad["a]r.] The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Adar n : the sixth month of the civil year; the twelfth month of the ecclesiastic year in the Jewish calendar (in February and March) [syn: {Adar}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Adar large the sixth month of the civil and the twelfth of the ecclesiastical year of the Jews (Esther 3:7, 13; 8:12; 9:1, 15, 17, 19, 21). It included the days extending from the new moon of our March to the new moon of April. The name was first used after the Captivity. When the season was backward, and the lambs not yet of a paschal size, or the barley not forward enough for abib, then a month called Veadar, i.e., a second Adar, was intercalated. From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Adar, high; eminent
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