Dictionaries :: Adoraim

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Adoraim:

strength of the sea

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Adoraim:

ad-o-ra'-im ('adhorayim, "a pair of knolls," perhaps): One of several cities in Judah that were fortified by Rehoboam (2Ch 11:9). The name appears in Josephus and in 1 Macc as Adora or Dora or Dor. Its location is indicated in general by that of the other cities which the record in Chronicles groups with it. Common consent identifies it with Dura, about five miles West by South of Hebron.

Nave's Topical Bible

Adoraim: A City of Judah

2Ch 11:9

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Adoraim:

(double mound) a fortified city built by Rehoboam (2 Chronicles 11:9) in Judah. Adoraim is probably the same place with Adora, (1 Maccabees 13:20). Unless that be Dor, on the seacoast below Carmel. Robinson identifies it with Dura, a "large village" on a rising ground west of Hebron.