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# עֲדָיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5718

**Adaiah** — 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

Adaiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5718/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲדָיָ֫ה(וּ): n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5718/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (י׳ has decked himself);— עֲדָיָ֫הוּ father of a Judaean captain 2 Ch 23:1, 𝔊 Αζεια, A Αδαια, 𝔊L Αδαιου (genit.). Elsewhere עֲדָיָה: grandfather of Josiah 2 K 22:1, 𝔊 Εδεινα, A Ιεδιδα, 𝔊L Οζιου (genit.). a Levite 1 Ch 6:26, 𝔊 Αζεια, A 𝔊L Αδ(α)ια. a Benjamite 8:21, 𝔊 Αβια, A Αλαια 𝔊L Αδαια. a priest 9:12 Ne 11:12, 𝔊 Αδαια(ς). two with foreign wives: Ezr 10:29, 𝔊 Αδα, 𝔊L Αδαιας. v 39, 𝔊 Αδαια, 𝔊L Αδδαιας. a Judahite Ne 11:5, 𝔊 Οζ(ε)ια, 𝔊L Αδαια.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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: Adaiah (5); of Adaiah (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.26/#tree)

בֶּן־אֶתְנִ֥י בֶן־זֶ֖רַח בֶּן־עֲדָיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Ethni the.son of.Zerah the.son of.Adaiah

*JPS 1917:* the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah;

[Ezra 10:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.39/#tree)

וְשֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֥ה וְנָתָ֖ן וַעֲדָיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Shelemiah and Nathan and Adaiah

*JPS 1917:* Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5718.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5718/): 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).