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# עָדָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5711

**Adah** — used 8 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

Adah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5711/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָדָה³: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5711/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (ornament; or (Arabic غُدْوَةٌ, غَدْوَةٌ) morning) 𝔊 Αδ(δ)α;—wife, of Lamech Gn 4:19, 20, 23 (J). of Esau 36:2, 4, 10, 12, 16 (PR).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Adah (3); of Adah (3); O Adah (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 4:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.20/#tree)

וַתֵּ֥לֶד עָדָ֖ה אֶת־יָבָ֑ל ה֣וּא הָיָ֔ה אֲבִ֕י יֹשֵׁ֥ב אֹ֖הֶל וּמִקְנֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and she.bore Adah (et) Jabal he he.was \[the\].father of.dweller\[s\] of.tent and livestock

*JPS 1917:* And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.

[Genesis 36:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.4/#tree)

וַתֵּ֧לֶד עָדָ֛ה לְעֵשָׂ֖ו אֶת־אֱלִיפָ֑ז וּבָ֣שְׂמַ֔ת יָלְדָ֖ה אֶת־רְעוּאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and she.bore Adah to Esau (et) Eliphaz and Basemath she.bore (et) Reuel

*JPS 1917:* And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5711.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5711/): 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).