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Strong's #5711: `Adah (pronounced aw-daw')

from 5710; ornament; Adah, the name of two women:--Adah.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛âdâh

Adah = "ornament"

1) the 1st of the 2 wives of Lamech and mother of Jabal and Jubal

2) a Hittitess, 1 of the 3 wives of Esau and mother of Eliphaz

2a) also called ' Bashemath'

Part of Speech: noun proper feminine

Relation: from H5710



Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

Genesis 4:19: "wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah."
Genesis 4:20: " And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell"
Genesis 4:23: "And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives"
Genesis 36:2: "of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite,"
Genesis 36:4: " And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bore"
Genesis 36:10: "sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son"
Genesis 36:12: "Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife."
Genesis 36:16: "of Edom; these were the sons of Adah."









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