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:
2 Kings 9:11: "came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore"
2 Kings 9:31: "Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?"
2 Kings 10:2: "letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you chariots"
2 Kings 10:3: "Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, of your master's sons, and set him on"
2 Kings 10:3: "him on his father's throne, for your master's house."
2 Kings 10:6: "ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel"
2 Kings 10:9: "I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew"
2 Kings 18:23: "therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver"
2 Kings 18:24: "of one captain of the least of my master's and put thy trust on Egypt"
2 Kings 18:27: "But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to"
2 Kings 18:27: "them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to these"
2 Kings 19:4: "the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God;"
2 Kings 19:6: "unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith Be not afraid"
1 Chronicles 12:19: "saying, He will fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads."
1 Chronicles 21:3: "times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's"
1 Chronicles 21:3: "the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require"
1 Chronicles 21:3: "my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be"
1 Chronicles 21:23: "unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do in his eyes:"
2 Chronicles 2:14: "to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father."
2 Chronicles 2:15: "the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken unto his servants:"
2 Chronicles 13:6: "is risen up, against his lord."
2 Chronicles 18:16: "said, These have no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace."
Nehemiah 3:5: "not their necks of their Lord."
Nehemiah 8:10: "for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy"
Nehemiah 10:29: "all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;"
Job 3:19: "are there; and the servant is free from his master. from his master."
Psalms 8:1: "A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how is thy name in all"
Psalms 8:9: "O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!"
Psalms 12:4: "will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord"
Psalms 45:11: "thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship"
Psalms 97:5: "at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole"
Psalms 105:21: "He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:"
Psalms 110:1: "of David. The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until"
Psalms 114:7: "Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God"
Psalms 123:2: "of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden the hand"
Psalms 135:5: "that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all"
Psalms 136:3: "O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth forever."
Psalms 136:3: "O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth forever."
Psalms 147:5: "Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite."
Proverbs 25:13: "to them that send him: for he refresheth of his masters."
Proverbs 27:18: "shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honored."
Proverbs 30:10: "not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty."
Isaiah 1:24: "Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah,"
Isaiah 3:1: "For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem"
Isaiah 10:16: "Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under"
Isaiah 10:33: "Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones"
Isaiah 19:4: "will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king over them, saith"
Isaiah 19:4: "king over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts."
Isaiah 21:8: "And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower"
Isaiah 22:18: "shalt thou die, the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house."
