Adadah
a-da'-da (`adh`adhah): A city in the southern part of Judah (Jos 15:22). The older copies of the Greek text have Arouel, but that is not a sufficient reason for identifying the ...
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Adadrimmon
a-dad-rim'-on: Shorter and less accurate name of a place in the Valley of Megiddo, which tradition connected with the death of King Josiah (Zec 12:11;2Ch 35:22). SeeHADADRIMMON.
Adah
a'-da (`adhah, "adornment"):(1) One of the two wives of Lamech the descendant of Cain (Ge 4:19,20,23). The narrative in Ge assigns to her two sons, Jabal the "father" of tent-dw...
Adaiah
a-da'-ya, a-di'-a (`adhayah, "Yahweh hath adorned"):(1) Apparently the seventh of the nine sons of Shimei, who is apparently the same with Shema, who is the fifth of the sons of...
Adalia
a-da-li'-a ('adhalya', probably a Persian name, meaning unknown): One of the ten sons of Haman who were put to death by the Jews (Es 9:8).
Adam In The New Testament
(Adam): The name of Adam occurs nine times (in five different passages) in the New Testament, though several of these are purely incidental.I. Gospels.InLu 3:38the ancestry of J...
Adam In The Old Testament
(Evolutionary Interpretation): NOTE: It ought to be superfluous to say that the unfolding or development of the human personality here identified with evolution is something far...
Adam In The Old Testament And The Apocrypha
ad'-am, ('adham; Septuagint Adam).1. Usage and Etymology:The Hebrew word occurs some 560 times in the Old Testament with the meaning "man," "mankind." OutsideGe 1-5the only case...
Adam, Books Of
Books pretending to give the life and deeds of Adam and other Old Testament worthies existed in abundance among the Jews and the early Christians. The Talmud speaks of a Book of...
Adam, City Of
('adham, "red" or BDB "made"): A city in the middle of the Jordan valley nearZARETHAN(Jos 3:16), which see. The name probably survives at the Damieh Ford, near the mouth of the ...
Adamah
ad'-a-ma ('adhamah; Adami): A fortified city in the territory of Naphtali, named between Chinnereth and Ramah (Jos 19:36). It is probably identical with the modern 'Admah, a rui...
Adamant
ad'-a-mant (shamir (Eze 3:9;Zec 7:12)): In the passages cited and inJer 17:1, where it is rendered "diamond" the word shamir evidently refers to a hard stone. The word adamant (...
Adami
ad'-a-mi; a-da'-mi: Mentioned in the King James Version as a separate name, where the Revised Version (British and American) hasADAMI-NEKEB, which see (Jos 19:33).
Adami-Nekeb
ad'-a-mi ne'-keb 'adhami ha-neqebh, "the ground of the piercing," (that is of the pass, or defile): A place mentioned in indicating the border of Naphtali (Jos 19:33). In the Ki...
Adan
a'-dan. SeeADDAN.
Adar (1)
a-'dar ('adhar, meaning uncertain): The Babylonian name of the twelfth month of the year. Used in the Bible only inEzr 6:15and eight times in Esther. At first the author in Esth...
Adar (2)
a'-dar: In the King James Version (Jos 15:3) forADDAR, which see.
Adarsa
a-dar'-sa. SeeADASA.
Adasa
ad'-a-sa (Adasa; the King James Version Adarsa): A town less than four miles from Beth-horon (30 furlongs Ant, XII, x, 5; 1 Macc 7:40) and a day's journey from Gazara (1 Macc 7:...
Adbeel
ad'-be-el ('adhbe'el, "God's discipline," possibly): The third of the twelve sons of Ishmael (Ge 25:13;1Ch 1:29). The name appears in the Assyrian records as that of a north Ara...
Add
(1) epidiatassomai, "to add to," "to arrange in addition": Found only inGa 3:15, which may thus be paraphrased: "To take a familiar illustration: even a man's will, when ratifie...
Addan
ad'-an ('addan; in Ne 'addon; connected in some way with the name of the god Addu): A name mentioned in the list of the returning exiles (Ezr 2:59, duplicated inNe 7:61). It is ...
Addar
ad'-ar ('addar, "glorious"): SeeARD(1) A grandson of Benjamin, sometimes counted as one of his sons (1Ch 8:3).(2) A town on the southern border of Judah (Jos 15:3, the King Jame...
Adder
ad'-er (`akhshubh (Ps 140:3); pethen (Ps 58:4); tsiph`oni (Pr 23:32); shephiphon (Ge 49:17); tsepha` (King James Version margin;Isa 14:29)): This word is used for several Hebrew...
Addi
ad'-i (Addi; Addei): An ancestor of Joseph, the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus; fourth from Zerubbabel in the ascending genealogical series (Lu 3:28).
Addict
a-dikt': Found only in the King James Version of1Co 16:15, for Greek tasso. The house of Stephanus is said to be "addicted to the ministry of the saints," i.e. they have so "arr...
Addo
ad'-o (Codex Alexandrinus, Addo; Codex Vaticanus, Eddein) = Iddo (Ezr 5:1;6:14): The father (Zec 1:1,7grandfather) of Zechariah the prophet (1 Esdras 6:1).