King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H5718
Transliteration: Adayah or Adayahu
Phonetic Spelling: (ad-aw-yaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "Yah has ornamented Himself", the name of a number of Isr
Meaning: Adaiah -- "Yah has ornamented Himself", the name of a number of Israelites
Word Summary
Adayah or Adayahu: "Yah has ornamented Himself", the name of a number of Isr
Original Word: עֲדָיָהTransliteration: Adayah or Adayahu
Phonetic Spelling: (ad-aw-yaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "Yah has ornamented Himself", the name of a number of Isr
Meaning: Adaiah -- "Yah has ornamented Himself", the name of a number of Israelites
Strong's Concordance
Adaiah Or madayahuw {ad-aw-yaw'-hoo}; from adah and Yahh; Jah has adorned; Adajah, the name of eight Israelites -- Adaiah.
see HEBREW adah
see HEBREW Yahh
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H5718. Adayah
or Adayahu עֲדָיָ֫ה(וּׅ proper name, masculine (׳י has decked himself); —
1 עֲדָיָ֫הוּ father of a Judaean captain 2 Chronicles 23:1, ᵐ5 Αζεια, A Αδαια, ᵐ5L Αδαιου (genitive). Elsewhere עֲדָיָה:
2 grandfather of Josiah 2 Kings 22:1, ᵐ5 Εδεινα, A Ιεδιδα, ᵐ5L Οζιου (genitive)
3 a Levite 1 Chronicles 6:26, ᵐ5 Αζεια, A ᵐ5L Αδ(α)ια.
4 Benjamite 1 Chronicles 8:21, ᵐ5 Αβια, A Αλαια, ᵐ5L Αδαια.
5 a priest 1 Chronicles 9:12; Nehemiah 11:12, ᵐ5 Αδαια(ς).
6 two with foreign wives:
a Ezra 10:29, ᵐ5 Αδα, ᵐ5L Αδαιας.
b. Ezra 10:39, ᵐ5 Αδαια, ᵐ5L Αδδαιας.
7 a Judahite Nehemiah 11:5, ᵐ5. Οζ(ε)ια, ᵐ5L Αδαια.