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# אַדְרַמֶּלֶךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H152

**Adrammelech** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Adrammelech [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/152/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַדְרַמֶּ֫לֶךְ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/152/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Adar is prince, Assyrian Adar-malik (?) v. KAT2 284, cf. ABK140; or A. is Counsellor, Decider, cf. DlK 52 f; otherwise SayceRel.Bab. 7; on Bab. god Adar v. SchrKSGW 1880, 19 f DlK 52 f, but SayceRel.Bab. 151 f; Jen;Ko 457 f al. read Assyrian name Ninib; on Carth. יתנאדר v. BaeRel. 54) a god of Sepharvaim 2 K 17:31. parricidal son of Sennacherib 2 K 19:37 Is 37:38.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Adrammelech (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 17:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.31/#tree)

וְהָעַוִּ֛ים עָשׂ֥וּ נִבְחַ֖ז וְאֶת־תַּרְתָּ֑ק וְהַסְפַרְוִ֗ים שֹׂרְפִ֤ים אֶת־בְּנֵיהֶם֙ בָּאֵ֔שׁ לְאַדְרַמֶּ֥לֶךְ וַֽעֲנַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֱלֹהֵ֥י סְפַרְוָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and the Avvites they.made Nibhaz and (et) Tartak and the Sepharvites \[were\].burning (et) children their in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the.gods of.Sepharvaim

*JPS 1917:* and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/152.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/152/): 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).