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:
Isaiah 24:2: "as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer,"
Isaiah 26:13: "O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name."
Isaiah 36:8: "therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give"
Isaiah 36:9: "of one captain of the least of my master's and put thy trust on Egypt"
Isaiah 36:12: "But Rab-shakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak"
Isaiah 36:12: "Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these"
Isaiah 37:4: "whom of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God,"
Isaiah 37:6: "them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus the LORD, Be not afraid"
Isaiah 51:22: "Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold,"
Jeremiah 22:18: "they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!"
Jeremiah 27:4: "And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts,"
Jeremiah 27:4: "Thus shall ye say unto your masters;"
Jeremiah 34:5: "shall they burn odors for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word,"
Jeremiah 37:20: "Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted"
Jeremiah 38:9: " My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that"
Daniel 1:10: "I fear my lord who hath appointed"
Daniel 10:16: "and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned"
Daniel 10:17: "can the servant of this my lord talk with this"
Daniel 10:17: "talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained"
Daniel 10:19: "unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened"
Daniel 12:8: "but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end"
Hosea 12:14: "his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord"
Amos 4:1: "which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink."
Micah 4:13: "their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth."
Zephaniah 1:9: "those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit."
Zechariah 1:9: "Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto"
Zechariah 4:4: "with me, saying, What are these, my lord?"
Zechariah 4:5: "be? And I said, No, my lord."
Zechariah 4:13: "what these be? And I said, No, my lord."
Zechariah 4:14: "anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole"
Zechariah 6:4: "that talked with me, What are these, my lord?"
Zechariah 6:5: "from standing before the Lord of all the earth."
Malachi 1:6: "honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father,"
Malachi 1:6: "is mine honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD"
Malachi 3:1: "and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom seek, shall suddenly"
