אוֹדוֹתʼôwdôwth
cause (Genesis 21:11; Numbers 12:1; 2 Samuel 13:16; Joshua 14:6; Jeremiah 3:8)
Pronunciation: o-doth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H182
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 21:11 This upset Abraham very much because Ishmael was his son.
- Genesis 21:25 Then Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had taken by force from Abraham’s servants.
- Genesis 26:32 That very day Isaac’s servants came and told him about a new well they had dug. “We’ve found water!” they exclaimed.
- Exodus 18:8 Moses told his father-in-law everything the Lord had done to Pharaoh and Egypt on behalf of Israel. He also told about all the hardships they had experienced along the way and how the Lord had rescued his people from all their troubles.
- Numbers 12:1 While they were at Hazeroth, Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because he had married a Cushite woman.
- Numbers 13:24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol (which means “cluster”), because of the cluster of grapes the Israelite men cut there.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).