Dictionaries :: Adonikam

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Adonikam:

whom the Lord sets up, one of those "which came with Zerubbabel" (Ezr 2:13). His "children," or retainers, to the number of 666, came up to Jerusalem (8:13).

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Adonikam:

the Lord is raised

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Adonikam:

ad-o-ni'-kam ('adhoniqam, "my lord has risen up"): The name of a family of the returning exiles (Ezr 2:13; Ne 7:18). "The sons of Adonikam," men and women and children, numbered 666 according to the list as given in Ezr, but 667 according to the copy in Neh. Either included among these or in addition to them was the contingent that came with Ezr, "Ehphalet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah, and with them 60 males" (Ezr 8:13).

Nave's Topical Bible

Adonikam: A Jew Who Returned with Ezra from Babylon

Called also ADONIJAH

Ezr 2:13; Neh 7:18; 10:16

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Adonikam:

The sons of Adonikam, 666 in number, were among those who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:13; Nehemiah 7:18; 1 Esdras 5:14). (B.C. 506‐410) The name is given as ADONIJAH in Nehemiah 10:16. SEE [ADONIJAH, 3.].