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# עֲדֻלָּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5725

**Adullam** — 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

Adullam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5725/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲדֻלָּם: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5725/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. old Canaanite city, 𝔊 Οδολλαμ, with king Jos 12:15 (D), in the שְׁפֵלָה 15:35 (P; 𝔊L Αδαλαμ), cf. Mi 1:15; Ne 11:30; (re-) built by Rehob. according to 2 Ch 11:7 (Οδολαμ); מְעָדַת ע׳ (read מְצֻדַת, מְצָדַת, v. מְצָרָה sub I. ערר) 1 S 22:1; 2 S 23:13; 1 Ch 11:15; site prob. ʿÎd-el-Mîye, c. 13 miles WSW. from Bethlehem, v. GASmGeogr. 229 BuhlGeogr. 193 and reff.

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 (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: Adullam (4); of Adullam (4).

## In the verses

[Joshua 12:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.15/#tree)

מֶ֤לֶךְ לִבְנָה֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶ֥לֶךְ עֲדֻלָּ֖ם אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Libnah one the.king of.Adullam one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

[Joshua 15:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.35/#tree)

יַרְמוּת֙ וַעֲדֻלָּ֔ם שׂוֹכֹ֖ה וַעֲזֵקָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Jarmuth and Adullam Socoh and Azekah

*JPS 1917:* Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5725.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5725/): 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).