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title: אֲדֹנִיָּה — Adonijah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲדֹנִיָּה (138), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: Adonijah. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲדֹנִיָּה

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«אֲדֹנִיָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Adonijah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 7 times · **Key:** 138 · **BDB:** אֲדֹנִיָּ֫הוּ

### Glosses

Adonijah (6); \[was\].Adonijah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Adonijah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/138/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/138/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (אֲדֹנִיָּה) n.pr.m. (my Lord is Yahweh, cf. Ph. אדנאשמן, אדנבעל, אדנשמש etc., in Assyrian Adunibaʾal SchrKB II, 172) fourth son of David 1 K 1:8 + 11 times, 2:13 + 5 times (= אֲדֹנִיָּה 2 S 3:4 1 K 1:5, 7, 18; 2:28 1 Ch 3:2). a Levite †2 Ch 17:8. a chief of the people †Ne 10:17 (= אֲדֹנִיקָם 7:18 Ezr 2:13 cf. 8:13).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲדֹנִיָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/138/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 10:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.17/)

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אֲדֹנִיָּ֥ה בִגְוַ֖י עָדִֽין׃

*Word for word:* Adonijah Bigvai Adin

*JPS 1917:* Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin;

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[2 Samuel 3:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.4/)

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וְהָרְבִיעִ֖י אֲדֹנִיָּ֣ה בֶן־חַגִּ֑ית וְהַחֲמִישִׁ֖י שְׁפַטְיָ֥ה בֶן־אֲבִיטָֽל׃

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] the fourth Adonijah the.son of.Haggith and.\[was\] the fifth Shephatiah the.son of.Abital

*JPS 1917:* and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

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