Strong's #5718: `Adayah (pronounced ad-aw-yaw')

or mAdayahuw {ad-aw-yaw'-hoo}; from 5710 and 3050; Jah has adorned; Adajah, the name of eight Israelites:--Adaiah.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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‛ădâyâh / ‛ădâyâhû

Adaiah = "Jehovah has adorned Himself"

1) maternal grandfather of king Josiah of Judah and native of Boscath in the lowlands of Judah

2) a Gershonite Levite and ancestor of Asaph

3) a Benjamite, son of Shimhi

4) a priest, son of Jehoram

5) ancestor of Maaseiah, one of the captains who supported Jehoiada

6) a descendant of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

7) a descendant of another Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

8) a descendant of Pharez of the tribe of Judah

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H5710 and H3050

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

2 Kings 22:1: "name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath."
1 Chronicles 6:41: "the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,"
1 Chronicles 8:21: " And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi;"
1 Chronicles 9:12: " And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai"
2 Chronicles 23:1: "of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant"
Ezra 10:29: "And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth."
Ezra 10:39: "And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,"
Nehemiah 11:5: "the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah,"
Nehemiah 11:12: "hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah,"