Word

אֲדְרַמֶּלֶךְ

ʼĂdrammelek · H152 · Hebrew · proper noun · 3 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 people

Adrammelechson of Sennacherib2 verses
Adrammelechdeity1 verse

Meanings

Adrammelech

A deity worshipped by the people of Sepharvaim

Examples
2 Kings 17:31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites were burning their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
Adrammelech

A man, son of Sennacherib king of Assyria, who together with his brother Sharezer killed his father

Examples
2 Kings 19:37 Then it came about, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword; and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esarhaddon became king in his place.
Isaiah 37:38 Then it came about, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword; and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esarhaddon became king in his place.

How it’s used In 3 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 2 groups

בֵּןson 2
אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

נָכָהto strike, to strike down 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 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 2 entries

Names of Deities003001004: אֲדְרַמֶּלֶךְ names a god to whom the Sepharvites burned their children, worshiped alongside Anammelech.
Names of People003001007: The same word also names Adrammelech, one of the sons who killed Sennacherib and fled to Ararat.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H152. Adrammelek אַדְרַמֶּ֫לֶךְ proper name, masculine (Adar is prince, Assyrian…

H152. Adrammelek
אַדְרַמֶּ֫לֶךְ proper name, masculine (Adar is prince, Assyrian Adar-malik (?) see KAT2284, cf, ABK140; or A. is Counsellor, Decider, compare DlK 52 f; otherwise SayceRel. Babylonian 7; on Babylonian god Adar see SchrKSGW 1880, 19 f DlK 52 f, but SayceRel, Babylonian 151 f; JenKo 457 f and others read Assyrian name Ninib; on Carthaginian יתנאדר see BaeRel. 54)
1 a god of Sepharvaim 2Ki 17:31.
2 parricidal son of Sennacherib 2Ki 19:37; Isa 37:38.
אֲדֹרָם see אדנירם below אדון. above
אֲדַרְכּוֺן see דרכמון.
אֶדְרְעִי see דרע.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Names of Deities1 occurrence Names of People2 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