ʻAdnâh — H5734

Definition

masculine proper noun

Adnah, the name of two Israelites

1. Adnah = "pleasure"
2. a Manassite who deserted from Saul and joined David at Ziklag
3. a captain in charge of over 300,000 men of Judah in the time of Jehoshaphat

Usually translated as

Adnah

Origin

from H5727; pleasure

• Derived from ʻâdan (H5727)

Occurrences

ʻAdnâh occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (1)

• 1 Chronicles 12:20 — As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah (עַ֠דְנַח), and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh.
• 2 Chronicles 17:14 — And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah (עַדְנָ֣ה) the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.