עַדְנָהʻAdnâh

Adnah, the name of two Israelites

Pronunciation: ad-naw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5734

Meanings

1. a prince of Judah (2 Chronicles 17:14)

2. a Manassite (1 Chronicles 12:21)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Chronicles 12:20 Here is a list of the men from Manasseh who defected to David as he was returning to Ziklag: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai. Each commanded 1,000 troops from the tribe of Manasseh.
  • 2 Chronicles 17:14 His army was enrolled according to ancestral clans. From Judah there were 300,000 troops organized in units of 1,000, under the command of Adnah.

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).