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# אֲדֹנִיקָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H140

**Adonikam** — used 3 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

Adonikam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/140/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲדֹנִיקָם: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/140/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (my Lord has arisen) head of a family Ezr 2:13; 8:13 Ne 7:18 (אֲדֹנִיָּהוּ Ne 10:17).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: of Adonikam (3).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.13/#tree)

בְּנֵי֙ אֲדֹ֣נִיקָ֔ם שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת שִׁשִּׁ֥ים וְשִׁשָּֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Adonikam six hundred(s) sixty and six

*JPS 1917:* The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.

[Nehemiah 7:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.18/#tree)

בְּנֵי֙ אֲדֹ֣נִיקָ֔ם שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת שִׁשִּׁ֥ים וְשִׁבְעָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Adonikam six hundred(s) sixty and seven

*JPS 1917:* The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/140.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/140/): 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).