הֲדַדHădad

proper name, masculine: Hadad

Pronunciation: had-ad' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1908

Meanings

1. name of kings of Edom

2. an Edomite (1 Kings 11:14; 1 Kings 11:17; 1 Kings 11:19)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 12 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 36:35 When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad became king in his place and ruled from the city of Avith. He was the one who defeated the Midianites in the land of Moab.
  • Genesis 36:36 When Hadad died, Samlah from the city of Masrekah became king in his place.
  • 1 Kings 11:14 Then the Lord raised up Hadad the Edomite, a member of Edom’s royal family, to be Solomon’s adversary.
  • 1 Kings 11:17 But Hadad and a few of his father’s royal officials escaped and headed for Egypt. (Hadad was just a boy at the time.)
  • 1 Kings 11:19 Pharaoh grew very fond of Hadad, and he gave him his wife’s sister in marriage—the sister of Queen Tahpenes.
  • 1 Kings 11:21 When the news reached Hadad in Egypt that David and his commander Joab were both dead, he said to Pharaoh, “Let me return to my own country.”
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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).