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:
1 Kings 1:21: "Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son"
1 Kings 1:24: "And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign"
1 Kings 1:27: "thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not showed it unto"
1 Kings 1:27: "who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after"
1 Kings 1:31: "and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord David live forever."
1 Kings 1:33: "with you the servants of your lord, and cause my son to ride"
1 Kings 1:36: "Amen: God of my lord the king say so"
1 Kings 1:37: "the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be"
1 Kings 1:37: "Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king"
1 Kings 1:43: "and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David"
1 Kings 1:47: "came to bless our lord king saying, God"
1 Kings 2:38: "The saying is good: as my lord the king so will thy servant"
1 Kings 3:17: "woman said, O my lord, I and this woman"
1 Kings 3:26: "her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child,"
1 Kings 11:23: "which from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:"
1 Kings 12:27: "people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah,"
1 Kings 16:24: "he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria."
1 Kings 18:7: "and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?"
1 Kings 18:8: "him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah"
1 Kings 18:10: "nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek"
1 Kings 18:11: "sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah"
1 Kings 18:13: "Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew"
1 Kings 18:14: "sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah"
1 Kings 20:4: "of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I"
1 Kings 20:9: "unto the messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that"
1 Kings 22:17: "said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace."
2 Kings 2:3: "the LORD will take away thy master from thy head today?"
2 Kings 2:5: "the LORD will take away thy master from thy head today?"
2 Kings 2:16: "let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD"
2 Kings 2:19: "is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground"
2 Kings 4:16: "a son. Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie"
2 Kings 4:28: "Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not"
2 Kings 5:1: "a great man his master, and honorable, because by him the LORD"
2 Kings 5:3: "unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that"
2 Kings 5:4: "And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid"
2 Kings 5:18: "the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house to worship"
2 Kings 5:20: "of God, said, Behold, my master Naaman this"
2 Kings 5:22: "And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now"
2 Kings 5:25: "went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto"
2 Kings 6:5: "and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed."
2 Kings 6:12: "of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha,"
2 Kings 6:15: "said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?"
2 Kings 6:22: "and drink, and go to their master."
2 Kings 6:23: "he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no"
2 Kings 6:26: "him, saying, Help, my lord, O king."
2 Kings 6:32: "and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind"
2 Kings 8:5: "her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this"
2 Kings 8:12: "said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know"
2 Kings 8:14: "from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What"
2 Kings 9:7: "the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants"
