עֲדָיָהʻĂdâyâh
proper name, masculine: has decked himself
Pronunciation: ad-aw-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5718
Meanings
1. father of a Judaean captain (2 Chronicles 23:1)
2. grandfather of Josiah (2 Kings 22:1)
3. a Levite (1 Chronicles 6:26)
4. Benjamite (1 Chronicles 8:21)
5. a priest (1 Chronicles 9:12; Nehemiah 11:12)
6. two with foreign wives
7. a Judahite (Nehemiah 11:5)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- 2 Kings 22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah from Bozkath.
- 1 Chronicles 6:41 Ethni, Zerah, Adaiah,
- 1 Chronicles 8:21 Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shimei.
- 1 Chronicles 9:12 Other returning priests were Adaiah son of Jeroham, son of Pashhur, son of Malkijah, and Maasai son of Adiel, son of Jahzerah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshillemith, son of Immer.
- 2 Chronicles 23:1 In the seventh year of Athaliah’s reign, Jehoiada the priest decided to act. He summoned his courage and made a pact with five army commanders: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zicri.
- Ezra 10:29 From the family of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.
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).