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# אַדְרַמֶּלֶךְ

Biblical Hebrew

**Adrammelech** — 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

Adrammelech [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5d3_5b0_5e8_5b7_5de_5b6_5bc_5dc_5b6_5da_5b0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַדְרַמֶּ֫לֶךְ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5d3_5b0_5e8_5b7_5de_5b6_5bc_5dc_5b6_5da_5b0/#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, 2 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: Adrammelech (2).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 19:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.37/#tree)

וַיְהִי֩ ה֨וּא מִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֜ה בֵּ֣ית ׀ נִסְרֹ֣ךְ אֱלֹהָ֗יו וְֽאַדְרַמֶּ֨לֶךְ וְשַׂרְאֶ֤צֶר בָּנָיו֙הִכֻּ֣הוּ בַחֶ֔רֶב וְהֵ֥מָּה נִמְלְט֖וּ אֶ֣רֶץ אֲרָרָ֑ט וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ אֵֽסַר־חַדֹּ֥ןאֵֽסַר־חַדֹּ֥ן בְּנ֖וֹ תַּחְתָּֽיו׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.was he \[was\].bowing.down the.house of.Nisroch god his and Adrammelech and Sharezer sons his they struck.him.down with the sword and they they.escaped the.land of.Ararat and he.became.king Esarhaddon Esarhaddon son his in place.of.him

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sarezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

[Isaiah 37:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.38/#tree)

וַיְהִי֩ ה֨וּא מִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֜ה בֵּ֣ית ׀ נִסְרֹ֣ךְ אֱלֹהָ֗יו וְֽאַדְרַמֶּ֨לֶךְ וְשַׂרְאֶ֤צֶר בָּנָיו֙ הִכֻּ֣הוּ בַחֶ֔רֶב וְהֵ֥מָּה נִמְלְט֖וּ אֶ֣רֶץ אֲרָרָ֑ט וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ אֵֽסַר־חַדֹּ֥ןאֵֽסַר־חַדֹּ֥ן בְּנ֖וֹ תַּחְתָּֽיו׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.was he \[was\].bowing.down the.house of.Nisroch god his and Adrammelech and Sharezer sons his they struck.him.down with the sword and they they.escaped the.land of.Ararat and he.became.king Esarhaddon Esarhaddon son his in place.of.him

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sarezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5d3_5b0_5e8_5b7_5de_5b6_5bc_5dc_5b6_5da_5b0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5d3_5b0_5e8_5b7_5de_5b6_5bc_5dc_5b6_5da_5b0/): 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).