עֲדֻלָּמִיʻĂdullâmîy

Adullamite (Genesis 38:1; Genesis 38:12; Genesis 38:20)

Pronunciation: ad-ool-law-mee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5726

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 38:1 About this time, Judah left home and moved to Adullam, where he stayed with a man named Hirah.
  • Genesis 38:12 Some years later Judah’s wife died. After the time of mourning was over, Judah and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to Timnah to supervise the shearing of his sheep.
  • Genesis 38:20 Later Judah asked his friend Hirah the Adullamite to take the young goat to the woman and to pick up the things he had given her as his guarantee. But Hirah couldn’t find her.

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).