Lexical 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. |