ʻĂdâyâh — H5718

Definition

masculine proper noun

Adajah, the name of eight Israelites

1. Adaiah = "Jehovah has adorned Himself"
2. maternal grandfather of king Josiah of Judah and native of Boscath in the lowlands of Judah
3. a Gershonite Levite and ancestor of Asaph
4. a Benjamite, son of Shimhi
5. a priest, son of Jehoram
6. ancestor of Maaseiah, one of the captains who supported Jehoiada
7. a descendant of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra
8. a descendant of another Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra
9. a descendant of Pharez of the tribe of Judah

Usually translated as

Adaiah

Origin

or ʻĂdâyâhûw; from H5710 and H3050; Jah has adorned

• Derived from ʻâdâh (H5710)
• Derived from Yâhh (H3050)

Occurrences

ʻĂdâyâh occurs 9 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (3), 2 Chronicles (1), Ezra (2), Nehemiah (2)

• 2 Kings 22:1 — Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah (עֲדָ֖יָה) of Boscath.
• 1 Chronicles 6:41 — The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah (עֲדָיָֽה),
• 1 Chronicles 8:21 — And Adaiah (וַעֲדָיָ֧ה), and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi;
• 1 Chronicles 9:12 — And Adaiah (וַעֲדָיָה֙) the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;
• 2 Chronicles 23:1 — And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah (עֲדָיָ֛הוּ), and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
• Ezra 10:29 — And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah (וַעֲדָיָ֔ה), Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.
• Ezra 10:39 — And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah (וַעֲדָיָֽה),
• Nehemiah 11:5 — And Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah (עֲדָיָ֧ה), the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.
• Nehemiah 11:12 — And their brethren that did the work of the house were eight hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah (וַ֠עֲדָיָה) the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchiah,