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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - עֲדָיָה
עֲדָיָה
H5718
Transliteration: ʻĂdâyâh
Pronunciation: ad-aw-yaw'
Definition: Adaiah
Original: עדיהוּ עדיה Transliteration: ‛ădâyâh ‛ădâyâhû Phonetic: ad-aw-yaw'
BDB Definition:
Adaiah = "Jehovah has adorned Himself"- maternal grandfather of king Josiah of Judah and native of Boscath in the lowlands of Judah
- a Gershonite Levite and ancestor of Asaph
- a Benjamite, son of Shimhi
- a priest, son of Jehoram
- ancestor of Maaseiah, one of the captains who supported Jehoiada
- a descendant of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra
- a descendant of another Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra
- a descendant of Pharez of the tribe of Judah