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HebrewH5718Proper Noun (Masculine)

עֲדָיָ֫הוּ

a.da.yah

8Occurrences
H5718Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Adajah, the name of eight Israelites

or עֲדָיָהוּ; from H5710 (עָדָה) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has adorned;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at ; father of: Jedidah (H3040) § Adaiah = "Jehovah has adorned Himself" 1) maternal grandfather of king Josiah of Judah and native of Boscath in the lowlands of ) a Gershonite Levite and ancestor of ) a Benjamite, son of Shimhi 4) a priest, son of Jehoram 5) ancestor of Maaseiah, one of the captains who supported Jehoiada 6) a descendant of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of ) a descendant of another Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of ) a descendant of Pharez of the tribe of Judah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

עֲדָיָ֫הוּ appears 8 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Chronicles
2
Ezra
2
Nehemiah
2
2 Chronicles
1
2 Kings
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 8:21BSB

Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shimei.

1 Chronicles 9:12BSB

Adaiah son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah;Maasai son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

2 Chronicles 23:1BSB

Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself and made a covenant with the commanders of hundreds—with Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zichri.

2 Kings 22:1BSB

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.

Ezra 10:29BSB

From the descendants of Bani:Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.