Word

אֲדֹנִיָּה

ʼĂdônîyâh · H138 · Hebrew · proper noun · 26 occurrences

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This name belongs to 3 people

Meanings

Adonijah

A man, son of David, who wanted to be king instead of his brother Solomon

Examples
2 Samuel 3:4 and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
1 Kings 1:5 Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” So he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, with fifty men to run before him.
1 Kings 1:7 Now he had conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest; and they allied themselves with Adonijah.
Adonijah

A man in the time of Nehemiah

Examples
Nehemiah 10:16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

7 occurrences in 4 groups

בֵּןson 4
אָחbrother 1
מֶלֶךְking 1
רְבִיעִיfourth 1

What it doesIt is the subject

13 occurrences in 9 groups

מָלַךְto reign, to be king 4
Other words · 8 groups that occur once or twice (9) 9

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לֵוִיִּיLevite 1
רְבִיעִיfourth 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 4 groups

לto/for 7
אַחַרafter, behind 4
עַלon, upon, over, against 2
עִםwith 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: אֲדֹנִיָּה is the personal name of David's son who attempted to seize the throne before Solomon was crowned.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H138. Adoniyyahu אֲדֹנִיָּ֫הוּ (אֲדֹיִּנָה) proper name, masculine (my Lord is Yahweh,…

H138. Adoniyyahu
אֲדֹנִיָּ֫הוּ (אֲדֹיִּנָה) proper name, masculine (my Lord is Yahweh, compare Phoenician אדנשמש אדנבעל, אדנאשמן, etc., in Assyrian Aduniba' al SchrKB II, 172)
1 fourth son of David 1Ki 1:8 1Ki 1:11t., 1Ki 2:13 1Ki 2:5t. (= אֲדֹנִיָּה 2Sa 3:4; 1Ki 1:5, 1Ki 1:7, 1Ki 1:18; 1Ki 2:28; 1Ch 3:2).
2 a Levite2Ch 17:8.
3 a chief of the people Neh 10:17 (= אֲדֹנִיקָם Neh 7:18; Ezr 2:13; compare Ezr 8:13).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People26 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0