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# אֲדֹנִירָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H141

**Adoniram** — used 2 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

Adoniram [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/141/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲדֹנִירָם: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/141/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (my Lord is exalted) official of Solom. 1 K 4:6; 5:28; so also 2 S 20:24 1 K 12:18 𝔊 We DrSm.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: Adoniram (2).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 4:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.6/#tree)

וַאֲחִישָׁ֖ר עַל־הַבָּ֑יִת וַאֲדֹנִירָ֥ם בֶּן־עַבְדָּ֖א עַל־הַמַּֽס׃ס

*Word for word:* and Ahishar \[was\].over the house and Adoniram the.son of.Abda \[was\].over the.forced labor

*JPS 1917:* and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy.

[1 Kings 5:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.28/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלָחֵ֣ם לְבָנ֗וֹנָה עֲשֶׂ֨רֶת אֲלָפִ֤ים בַּחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ חֲלִיפ֔וֹת חֹ֚דֶשׁ יִהְי֣וּ בַלְּבָנ֔וֹן שְׁנַ֥יִם חֳדָשִׁ֖ים בְּבֵית֑וֹ וַאֲדֹנִירָ֖ם עַל־הַמַּֽס׃ס

*Word for word:* and he sent.them to Lebanon ten thousand(s) in the month relays a.month they.were in (the) Lebanon two months in home his and Adoniram \[was\].over the.forced labor

*JPS 1917:* And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the levy.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/141/): 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).