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:
Judges 19:27: " And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go"
Ruth 2:13: "Let me find favor in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that"
1 Samuel 1:15: "answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit:"
1 Samuel 1:26: "And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman"
1 Samuel 1:26: "my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman by"
1 Samuel 16:16: " Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning"
1 Samuel 20:38: "the arrows, and came to his master."
1 Samuel 22:12: "of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord."
1 Samuel 24:6: "I should do this unto my master, the LORD's anointed, to stretch forth"
1 Samuel 24:8: "and cried after saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked"
1 Samuel 24:10: "thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD's"
1 Samuel 25:10: "that break away every man from his master."
1 Samuel 25:14: "sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed"
1 Samuel 25:17: "evil is determined our master, and against all his household: for he"
1 Samuel 25:24: "his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, speak"
1 Samuel 25:25: "Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this"
1 Samuel 25:25: "him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom"
1 Samuel 25:26: "Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD"
1 Samuel 25:26: "let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal."
1 Samuel 25:27: "which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given that follow"
1 Samuel 25:27: "let it even be given that follow my lord."
1 Samuel 25:28: "for the LORD will certainly make my lord house; because"
1 Samuel 25:28: "my lord house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD,"
1 Samuel 25:29: "thy soul: but the soul of my lord bound in the bundle of life"
1 Samuel 25:30: "when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good"
1 Samuel 25:31: "grief unto thee, nor offense of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed causeless, or that my lord"
1 Samuel 25:31: "either that thou hast shed causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord,"
1 Samuel 25:31: "hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid."
1 Samuel 25:41: "the feet of the servants of my lord."
1 Samuel 26:15: "wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came"
1 Samuel 26:15: "of the people in to destroy the king thy lord."
1 Samuel 26:16: "because ye have not kept your master, the LORD's anointed. And now"
1 Samuel 26:17: "And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king."
1 Samuel 26:18: "And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for"
1 Samuel 26:19: "Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant."
1 Samuel 29:4: "he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not"
1 Samuel 29:8: "I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"
1 Samuel 29:10: "Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with"
1 Samuel 30:13: "I of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left"
1 Samuel 30:15: "me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company."
2 Samuel 1:10: "and have brought them hither unto my lord."
2 Samuel 2:5: "ye have showed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried"
2 Samuel 2:7: "and be ye valiant: for your master Saul and also"
2 Samuel 3:21: "Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with"
2 Samuel 4:8: "thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day"
2 Samuel 9:9: "and said unto unto thy master's son all that pertained"
2 Samuel 9:10: "the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's may have food to eat:"
2 Samuel 9:10: "food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread always"
2 Samuel 9:11: "the king, According to all that my lord the king his servant,"
2 Samuel 10:3: "said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest doth honor"
