ADIN
(dainty, delicate), ancestor of a family who returned form Babylon with Zerubbabel, to the number of 454, (Ezra 2:15) or 655 according to the parallel list in (Nehemiah 7:20) (B...
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ADINA
(slender), one of David’s captains beyond the Jordan, and a chief of the Reubenites. (1 Chronicles 11:42)
ADINO, OR ADINO, THE EZNITE
(2 Samuel 23:8) See JASHOBEAM.
ADITHAIM
(double ornament), a town belonging to Judah, lying in the low country, and named, between Sharaim and hag-Gederah, in (Joshua 15:36) only.
ADLAI OR ADLAI
(justice of Jehovah), Ancestor of Shaphat, the overseer of David’s herds that fed in the broad valleys. (1 Chronicles 27:29) (B.C. before 1050.)
ADMAH
(earthy, fortress), one of the "cities of the plain," always coupled with Zeboim. (Genesis 10:19; 14:2,8; 29:23; Hosea 11:8)
ADMATHA
(given by the highest), one of the seven princes of Persia. (Esther 1:14)
ADNA
(rest, pleasure).One of the family of Pahath-moab, who returned with Ezra and married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:30) (B.C. 459.)A priest, descendant of Harim in the days of Joiaki...
ADNAH
(pleasure).A Manassite who deserted from Saul and joined the fortunes of David on his road to Ziklag from the camp of the Philistines. He was captain of a thousand of his tribe,...
ADONIBEZEK
(lord of Bezek), king of Bezek, a city of the Canaanites. [BEZEK] This chieftain was vanquished by the tribe of Judah, (Judges 1:3-7) who cut off his thumbs and great toes, and ...
ADONIJAH
(my Lord is Jehovah).The fourth son of David by Haggith, born at Hebron while his father was king of Judah. (2 Samuel 3:4) (B.C. about 1050.) After the death of his three brothe...
ADONIKAM, OR ADONIKAM
The sons of Adonikam, 666 in number, were among those who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:13; Nehemiah 7:18); 1Esd 5:14 (B.C. 506-410.) The name is given as ADONI...
ADONIRAM
(lord of heights), (1 Kings 4:6) by an unusual contraction ADORAM, (2 Samuel 20:24) and 1Kin 12:18 Also HADORAM, (2 Chronicles 10:18) chief receiver of the tribute during the re...
ADONIZEDEK
(lord of justice), the Amorite king of Jerusalem who organized a league with four other Amorite princes against Joshua. The confederate kings having laid siege to Gibeon, Joshua...
ADOPTION
an expression used by St. Paul in reference to the present and prospective privileges of Christians. (Romans 8:15,23; Galatians 4:5; Ephesians 1:5) He probably alludes to the Ro...
ADOR, OR ADORA
[ADORAIM]
ADORAIM
(double mound), a fortified city built by Rehoboam, (2 Chronicles 11:9) in Judah. Adoraim is probably the same place with Adora, 1Ma 13:20 Unless that be Dor, on the seacoast be...
ADORAM
[ADONIRAM; HADORAM]
ADORATION
The acts and postures by which the Hebrews expressed adoration bear a great similarity to those still in use among Oriental nations. To rise up and suddenly prostrate the body w...
ADRAMMELECH
(splendor of the king).The name of an idol introduced into Samaria by the colonists from Sepharvaim. (2 Kings 17:31) He was worshipped with rites resembling those of Molech, chi...
ADRAMYTTIUM
named form Adramys, brother of Croesus king of Lydia, a seaport in the province of Asia [ASIA], situated on a bay of the Aegean Sea, about 70 miles north of Smyrna, in the distr...
ADRIA
more properly A’drias, the Adriatic Sea. (Acts 27:27) The word seems to have been derived from the town of Adria, near the Po. In Paul’s time it included the whole sea between G...
ADRIEL
(flock of God), son of Barzillai, to whom Saul gave his daughter Merab, although he had previously promised her to David. (1 Samuel 18:19) (B.C. about 1062.) His five sons were ...
ADULLAM
(justice of the people), Apocr. ODOLLAM, a city of Judah int he lowland of the Shefelah, (Joshua 15:35) the seat of a Canaanite king, (Joshua 12:15) and evidently a place of gre...
ADULTERY
(Exodus 20:14) The parties to this crime, according to Jewish law, were a married woman and a man who was not her husband. The Mosaic penalty was that both the guilty parties sh...
ADUMMIM
(the going up to), a rising ground or pass over against Gilgal," and "on the south side of the ’torrent’" (Joshua 15:7; 18:17) which is the position still occupied by the road l...
ADVOCATE
or Paraclete, one that pleads the cause of another. (1 John 2:1) Used by Christ, (John 14:16; 15:26; 16:7) to describe the office and work of the Holy Spirit, and translated Com...