Strong's Hebrew: 138. אֲדֹנִיָּה (Adoniyyahu) -- "my Lord is Yahweh," the name of several Israelites

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Adoniyyahu: "my Lord is Yahweh," the name of several Israelites

Original Word: אֲדֹנִיָּה
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Adoniyyahu
Phonetic Spelling: (ad-o-nee-yaw')
Short Definition: Adonijah

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from adon and Yah
Definition
"my Lord is Yahweh," the name of several Isr.
NASB Translation
Adonijah (26).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

(אֲדֹיִּנָה) אֲדֹנִיָּ֫הוּ proper name, masculine (my Lord is Yahweh, compare Phoenician אדנאשמן, אדנבעל, אדנשמש etc., in Assyrian Aduniba' al Schr^{KB II, 172})

1 fourth son of David 1 Kings 1:8 11t., 1 Kings 2:13 5t. (= אֲדֹנִיָּה 2 Samuel 3:4; 1 Kings 1:5,7,18; 1 Kings 2:28; 1 Chronicles 3:2).

2 a Levite2Chronicles 17:8.

3 a chief of the people Nehemiah 10:17 (= אֲדֹנִיקָם Nehemiah 7:18; Ezra 2:13; compare Ezra 8:13).

Strong's

Adonijah

Original (prolonged) dadoniyahuw {ad-o-nee- yaw'-hoo}; from 'adown and Yahh; lord (i.e. Worshipper) of Jah; Adonijah, the name of three Israelites -- Adonijah.

see HEBREW 'adown

see HEBREW Yahh