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# עֲדֻלָּמִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5726

**Adullamite** — used 3 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

Adullamite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5726/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲדֻלָּמִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5726/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. Adullamite;—אִישׁ ע׳ Gn 38:1, הָע׳ as subst. v 12, 20.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Adullamite (2); an Adullamite (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 38:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.1/#tree)

וַֽיְהִי֙ בָּעֵ֣ת הַהִ֔וא וַיֵּ֥רֶד יְהוּדָ֖ה מֵאֵ֣ת אֶחָ֑יו וַיֵּ֛ט עַד־אִ֥ישׁ עֲדֻלָּמִ֖י וּשְׁמ֥וֹ חִירָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.was at the time (the) that and he.went.down Judah from with brothers his and he.turned.aside to a.man an.Adullamite and name his \[was\].Hirah

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

[Genesis 38:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.20/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח יְהוּדָ֜ה אֶת־גְּדִ֣י הָֽעִזִּ֗ים בְּיַד֙ רֵעֵ֣הוּ הָֽעֲדֻלָּמִ֔י לָקַ֥חַת הָעֵרָב֖וֹן מִיַּ֣ד הָאִשָּׁ֑ה וְלֹ֖א מְצָאָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent Judah (et) the.kid of the.goats by the.hand his.friend his the Adullamite to take the pledge from the.hand of the.woman and not he found.her

*JPS 1917:* And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand; but he found her not.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5726/): 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).