Dictionaries :: Adaiah

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Adaiah:

the witness of the Lord

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Adaiah:

a-da'-ya, a-di'-a (‘adhayah, "Yahweh hath adorned"):

(1) Apparently the seventh of the nine sons of Shimei, who is apparently the same with Shema, who is the fifth of the sons of Elpaal, who is the second of the two sons of Shaharaim and Hushim (1Ch 8:21). Shaharaim and his descendants are listed with the descendants of Benjamin, though his relations to Benjamin are not stated.

(2) A Levite; ancestor to David's singer Asaph, and a descendant of the fifth generation from Gershom (1Ch 6:41).

(3) The father of Maaseiah, who was one of the captains of hundreds associated with Jehoiada the priest in making Joash king (2Ch 23:1).

(4) A resident of Bozkath, and father of Jedidah the mother of King Josiah (2Ki 22:1).

(5) A descendant of Judah through Perez. His great-great-grandson Maaseiah resided in Jerusalem after Nehemiah had rehabilitated the city (Ne 11:5).

(6) One of the men of Israel, not a priest or Levite, but "of the sons of Bani," who promised Ezra that he would part with his foreign wife (Ezr 10:29).

(7) The same man or another, in a different group of the sons of Bani (Ezr 10:39).

(8) One of the priests of the latest Bible times, mentioned with a partial genealogy (Ne 11:12; 1Ch 9:12).

Written by Willis J. Beecher

Nave's Topical Bible

Adaiah: 1. Grandfather of Josiah

2Ki 22:1

Adaiah: 2. A Musician

1Ch 6:41

Adaiah: 3. A Priest

1Ch 9:12; Neh 11:12

Adaiah: 4. A Benjamite

1Ch 8:21

Adaiah: 5. Father of Maaseiah

2Ch 23:1

Adaiah: 6. Two Sons of Bani

Ezr 10:29, 39

Adaiah: 7. Son of Joiarib

Neh 11:5

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Adaiah:

(adorned by Jehovah).

(1.) Maternal grandfather of King Josiah, and native of Boscath in the lowlands of Judah (2 Kings 22:1). (B.C. 648)

(2.) A Levite of the Gershonite branch, and ancestor of Asaph (1 Chronicles 6:41). In 1 Chronicles 6:21 He is called IDDO. SEE [IDDO, 2.].

(3.) A Benjamite, son of Shimhi (1 Chronicles 8:21) who is apparently the same as Shema in 1 Chronicles 8:13. SEE [SHEMA, 2.].

(4.) A priest, son of Jehoram (1 Chronicles 9:12; Nehemiah 11:12).

(5.) Ancestor of Maaseiah, one of the captains who supported Jehoiada (2 Chronicles 23:1).

(6.) One of the descendants of Bani, who had married a foreign wife after the return from Babylon (Ezra 10:29). (B.C. 459)

(7.) The descendant of another Bani, who had also taken a foreign wife (Ezra 10:39).

(8.) A man of Judah, of the line of Pharez (Nehemiah 11:5).