אֲדֹנִי־בֶזֶקʼĂdônîy-Bezeq
proper name, masculine: king of Canaanite city Bezek (Judges 1:7; Judges 1:5; Judges 1:6)
Pronunciation: ad-o''-nee-beh'-zek · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H137
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Judges 1:5 While at Bezek they encountered King Adoni-bezek and fought against him, and the Canaanites and Perizzites were defeated.
- Judges 1:6 Adoni-bezek escaped, but the Israelites soon captured him and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
- Judges 1:7 Adoni-bezek said, “I once had seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off, eating scraps from under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.” They took him to Jerusalem, and he died 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).