אוֹדָה
o.dah
“because”
Definition
turnings (i.e. occasions); (adverb) on account of
or (shortened) אֹדוֹת (only thus in the plural); from the same as H181 (אוּד);
- cause 1a) cause, reason for 1b) the occasion of
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
אוֹדָה appears 10 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
“No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!”But he refused to listen to her.
Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.
On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.
She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife.
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