Definition

in up to or over against; generally at, beside, among, behind, for, etc.

Etymology

from H5704 (עַד) with prepositional prefix;

Where the KJV renders it

• about
• at by (means of)
• for
• over
• through
• up (-on)
• within

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.