Strong's #113: 'adown (pronounced aw-done')
or (shortened) adon {aw-done'}; from an unused root (meaning to rule); sovereign, i.e. controller (human or divine):-- lord, master, owner. Compare also names beginning with "Adoni-".
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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'âdôn / 'âdôn
1) firm, strong, lord, master
1a) lord, master
1a1) reference to men
1a1a) superintendent of household,of affairs
1a1b) master
1a1c) king
1a2) reference to God
1a2a) the Lord God
1a2b) Lord of the whole earth
1b) lords, kings
1b1) reference to men
1b1a) proprietor of hill of Samaria
1b1b) master
1b1c) husband
1b1d) prophet
1b1e) governor
1b1f) prince
1b1g) king
1b2) reference to God
1b2a) Lord of lords (probably = "thy husband, Yahweh" )
1c) my lord, my master
1c1) reference to men
1c1a) master
1c1b) husband
1c1c) prophet
1c1d) prince
1c1e) king
1c1f) father
1c1g) Moses
1c1h) priest
1c1i) theophanic angel
1c1j) captain
1c1k) general recognition of superiority
1c2) reference to God
1c2a) my Lord,my Lord and my God
1c2b) Adonai (parallel with Yahweh)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root (meaning to rule)
Usage:
This word is used 335 times:
Genesis 42:33: "And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that"
Genesis 43:20: "And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:"
Genesis 44:5: "Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth?"
Genesis 44:7: "unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid"
Genesis 44:8: "of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house out of thy lord's house silver"
Genesis 44:9: "both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen."
Genesis 44:16: "said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how"
Genesis 44:16: "the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also"
Genesis 44:18: "unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, a word"
Genesis 44:18: "I pray thee, a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn"
Genesis 44:19: " My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or"
Genesis 44:20: "And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age,"
Genesis 44:22: "And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave"
Genesis 44:24: "we told him of my lord."
Genesis 44:33: "instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; go up with his brethren."
Genesis 45:8: "and he hath made to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all"
Genesis 45:9: "Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto"
Genesis 47:18: "hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent;"
Genesis 47:18: "how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle;"
Genesis 47:18: "of cattle; there is not aught left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies,"
Genesis 47:25: "let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's"
Exodus 21:4: "If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters;"
Exodus 21:4: "and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself."
Exodus 21:5: "shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife,"
Exodus 21:6: " Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or"
Exodus 21:6: "or the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl;"
Exodus 21:8: "If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed:"
Exodus 21:32: "or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master shekels of silver, and the ox"
Exodus 23:17: "thy males shall appear before the Lord"
Exodus 32:22: "said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest"
Exodus 34:23: "your men children appear before the Lord the God of Israel."
Numbers 11:28: "one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid"
Numbers 12:11: "unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay the sin"
Numbers 32:25: "will do as my lord commandeth."
Numbers 32:27: "the LORD to battle, my lord saith."
Numbers 36:2: "The LORD commanded my lord to give the land"
Numbers 36:2: "by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give"
Deuteronomy 10:17: "your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great a mighty,"
Deuteronomy 10:17: "is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great a mighty, and a terrible,"
Deuteronomy 23:15: "Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from"
Deuteronomy 23:15: "which is escaped from his master unto"
Joshua 3:11: "Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before"
Joshua 3:13: "that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord the earth, shall rest in the waters"
Joshua 5:14: "and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?"
Judges 3:25: "a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth."
Judges 4:18: "and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, to me; fear not."
Judges 6:13: "said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with"
Judges 19:11: "and the servant said his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into"
Judges 19:12: " And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger,"
Judges 19:26: "of the man's house her lord was, till it was light."
