[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%90%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [א](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/alef/)‎ / אֲדֹנִיָּהוּ‎

# אֲדֹנִיָּהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Adonijah** — used 19 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Adonijah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d3_5b9_5e0_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲדֹנִיָּ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d3_5b9_5e0_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (אֲדֹנִיָּה) n.pr.m. (my Lord is Yahweh, cf. Ph. אדנאשמן, אדנבעל, אדנשמש etc., in Assyrian Adunibaʾal SchrKB II, 172) fourth son of David 1 K 1:8 + 11 times, 2:13 + 5 times (= אֲדֹנִיָּה 2 S 3:4 1 K 1:5, 7, 18; 2:28 1 Ch 3:2). a Levite †2 Ch 17:8. a chief of the people †Ne 10:17 (= אֲדֹנִיקָם 7:18 Ezr 2:13 cf. 8:13).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Adonijah (19).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 2:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.21/#tree)

וַתֹּ֕אמֶר יֻתַּ֖ן אֶת־אֲבִישַׁ֣ג הַשֻּׁנַמִּ֑ית לַאֲדֹנִיָּ֥הוּ אָחִ֖יךָ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and she.said let.it.be.given (et) Abishag the Shunammite to Adonijah brother your to a.wife

*JPS 1917:* And she said: 'Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.'

[1 Kings 1:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.43/#tree)

וַיַּ֙עַן֙ יוֹנָתָ֔ן וַיֹּ֖אמֶר לַאֲדֹנִיָּ֑הוּ אֲבָ֕ל אֲדֹנֵ֥ינוּ הַמֶּֽלֶךְ־דָּוִ֖ד הִמְלִ֥יךְ אֶת־שְׁלֹמֹֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Jonathan and he.said to Adonijah but lord(s) our the king David he.has.made.king (et) Solomon

*JPS 1917:* And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah: 'Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d3_5b9_5e0_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d3_5b9_5e0_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).