I. ADAR, the twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil year. It has twenty-nine days ; and nearly answers to our February and March, according to the Rabbins. (See Months, and the Jewish Calendar.) As the lunar year, which the Jews follow in their calculation, is shorter than the solar year by eleven days, which after three years make about a month, they then insert a Thirteenth month, which they call Ve- Adar, or a second Adar, to which they assign twenty- nine days.

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II. ADAR, a city on the southern border of Judah, Josh. xv. 3. In Numb, xxxiv. 4. it is called Hazar- Addar, or the court of Adar.