אָדוֹן
lord
also: firm, strong, master fuller range ↓
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H113 appears in the Book of Genesis — 60 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis
- Genesis 18:3 אֲדֹנָ֗/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.
- Genesis 18:12 וַֽ/אדֹנִ֖/י conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
- Genesis 19:2 אֲדֹנַ֗/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you will rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."
- Genesis 23:6 אֲדֹנִ֗/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. In the choice of our tombs bury your dead. None of us will withhold from you his tomb, but that you may bury your dead."
- Genesis 23:11 אֲדֹנִ֣/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs "No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."
- Genesis 23:15 אֲדֹנִ֣/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."
- Genesis 24:9 אֲדֹנָ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
- Genesis 24:10 אֲדֹנָי/ו֙ אֲדֹנָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
- Genesis 24:12 אֲדֹנִ֣/י אֲדֹנִ֥/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs He said, "Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
- Genesis 24:14 אֲדֹנִֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink.' She will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' Let the same be she who you have appointed for your servant Isaac. Thereby will I know that you have shown kindness to my master."
- Genesis 24:18 אֲדֹנִ֑/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs She said, "Drink, my lord." She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink.
- Genesis 24:27 אֲדֹנִ֣/י אֲדֹנִ֑/י אֲדֹנִֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."
- Genesis 24:35 אֲדֹנִ֛/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and donkeys.
- Genesis 24:36 אֲדֹנִ֥/י לַֽ/אדֹנִ֔/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.
- Genesis 24:37 אֲדֹנִ֖/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,
- Genesis 24:39 אֲדֹנִ֑/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs I said to my master, 'What if the woman will not follow me?'
- Genesis 24:42 אֲדֹנִ֣/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs I came this day to the spring, and said, 'Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go.
- Genesis 24:44 אֲדֹנִֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs She will tell me, "Drink, and I will also draw for your camels." Let the same be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master's son.'
- Genesis 24:48 אֲדֹנִ֣/י אֲדֹנִ֖/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.
- Genesis 24:49 אֲדֹנִ֖/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me. That I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."
- Genesis 24:51 אֲדֹנֶ֔י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Behold, Rebekah is before you, take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has spoken."
- Genesis 24:54 לַֽ/אדֹנִֽ/י prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, "Send me away to my master."
- Genesis 24:56 לַֽ/אדֹנִֽ/י prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs He said to them, "Don't hinder me, seeing Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."
- Genesis 24:65 אֲדֹנִ֑/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." She took her veil, and covered herself.
- Genesis 31:35 אֲדֹנִ֔/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs She said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for the manner of women is on me." He searched, but didn't find the teraphim.
- Genesis 32:4 לַֽ/אדֹנִ֖/י prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
- Genesis 32:5 לַֽ/אדֹנִ֔/י prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, men-servants, and maid-servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"
- Genesis 32:18 לַֽ/אדֹנִ֖/י prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'"
- Genesis 33:8 אֲדֹנִֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
- Genesis 33:13 אֲדֹנִ֤/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
- Genesis 33:14 אֲדֹנִ֖/י אֲדֹנִ֖/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Please let my lord pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."
- Genesis 33:15 אֲדֹנִֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
- Genesis 39:2 אֲדֹנָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
- Genesis 39:3 אֲדֹנָ֔י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.
- Genesis 39:7 אֲדֹנָ֛י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me."
- Genesis 39:8 אֲדֹנָ֔י/ו אֲדֹנִ֔/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs But he refused, and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my master doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
- Genesis 39:16 אֲדֹנָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
- Genesis 39:19 אֲדֹנָ֜י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant did to me," that his wrath was kindled.
- Genesis 39:20 אֲדֹנֵ֨י n c mp cs Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.
- Genesis 40:1 לַ/אֲדֹנֵי/הֶ֖ם prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp It happened after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
- Genesis 40:7 אֲדֹנָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"
- Genesis 42:10 אֲדֹנִ֑/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
- Genesis 42:30 אֲדֹנֵ֥י n c mp cs "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
- Genesis 42:33 אֲדֹנֵ֣י n c mp cs The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'Hereby will I know that you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
- Genesis 43:20 אֲדֹנִ֑/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs and said, "Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
- Genesis 44:5 אֲדֹנִ/י֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'"
- Genesis 44:7 אֲדֹנִ֔/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
- Genesis 44:8 אֲדֹנֶ֔י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?
- Genesis 44:9 לַֽ/אדֹנִ֖/י prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants."
- Genesis 44:16 לַֽ/אדֹנִ֔/י לַֽ/אדֹנִ֔/י prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found."
- Genesis 44:18 אֲדֹנִ/י֒ אֲדֹנִ֔/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and don't let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.
- Genesis 44:19 אֲדֹנִ֣/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'
- Genesis 44:20 אֲדֹנִ֔/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.'
- Genesis 44:22 אֲדֹנִ֔/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'
- Genesis 44:24 אֲדֹנִֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
- Genesis 44:33 לַֽ/אדֹנִ֑/י prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
- Genesis 45:8 וּ/לְ/אָדוֹן֙ conj + prep + n c ms So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 45:9 לְ/אָד֖וֹן prep + n c ms Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait.
- Genesis 47:18 מֵֽ/אֲדֹנִ֔/י אֲדֹנִ֑/י אֲדֹנִ֔/י prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
- Genesis 47:25 אֲדֹנִ֔/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“lord” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun אדון (ʼâdôwn). Not a single-sense word: its full sense range also takes in “firm”, “strong”, and “master”. It turns up in 281 verses across 25 books, a common footprint. First canonically at Genesis 18:3, it enters the text early. From the same root come אדן, אדני and דין. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H113 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 281
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 281 distinct verses.
- 25 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 25 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #150
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 150 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 281 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 281 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 176 verses · 63%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 75 verses · 27%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 30 verses · 11%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Lord 159×, Master 63×, Master's 16×
- American Standard Version: Lord 137×, Master 68×, Let my lord 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Lord 151×, Master 89×, Master’s 24×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lord 154×, Master 142×, Lords 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H113 across 335 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 63 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H113 across 326 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 73 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H113 across 319 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 19 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 14 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H113 across 328 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
8 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 8 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. sg. lord, master (1) ref. to men: (a) supt. of household, or of affairs Gn 45:8, 9 (E) = ψ 105:21; (b) master ψ 12:5; (c) king Je 22:18; 34:5; (2) ref. to God, הָאָדוֹן יהוה the Lord Yahweh (v. יהוה) Ex 23:17; 34:23 (Cov’t codes); אֲדוֹן כָּל־הָאָרֶץ Lord of the whole earth Jos 3:11, 13 (J) ψ 97:5 Zc 4:14; 6:5 Mi 4:13; צְבָאוֹת הָא׳ י׳, earlier Is 1:24; 3:1; 10:33; 19:4 (אֲדֹנָי Is 10:16 in common MT; not Massora, doubtless scrib. error); הָא׳ Mal 3:1; אָדוֹן ψ 114:7. e.g. Genesis 45:8
- 2. pl. lords, kings Dt 10:17 = ψ 136:3; Is 26:13 masters Am 4:1, elsewhere intens. pl. of rank, lord, master, (1) ref. to men: (a) proprietor of hill Samaria †1 K 16:24; (b) master Gn 40:7 (E) Ex 21:4(×2), 6, 8, 32 (Cov’t code) Gn 24:9 + (J, 11 times) Dt 23:16 Ju 19:11, 12 + 13 times S & K; Jb 3:19 ψ 123:2 Pr 25:13; 27:18; 30:10 Is 24:2 Zp 1:9 Mal 1:6(×2) (c) husband Ju 19:26, 27 ψ 45:12; (d) prophet 2 K 2:3, 5, 16; (e) governor Ne 3:5; (f) prince Gn 42:10, 30, 33 (E) 44:8 (J) 1 S 29:10; (g) king Gn 40:1 (E) Ju 3:25 + 40 times S & K; Ch only in sources 1 Ch 12:19 cf. 1 S 29:4; 2 Ch 13:6; 18:16 = 1 K 22:17; Is 19:4; 22:18; 36:12; 37:4, 6 Je 27:4; (2) ref. to God Mal 1:6; אֲדֹנֵי הָאֲדֹנִים Lord of lords Dt 10:17 = ψ 136:3; אֲדֹנֵינוּ ψ 135:5; 147:5 Ne 8:10; י׳אֲדֹנֵינוּ ψ 8:2, 10 Ne 10:30; אֲדֹנַיִךְ י׳ Is 51:22 (prob. = thy husband, Yahweh); אֲדֹנָיו Ho 12:15 (possibly error for אֲדֹנָי). e.g. Deuteronomy 10:17
- 3. sf. 1 s. אֲדֹנִי (אֲדֹנַי) (1) ref. to men: my lord, my master, (a) master Ex 21:5 (Cov’t code) Gn 24:12 +, 44:5 (J, 20 times) 1 S 30:13, 15 2 K 5:3, 20, 22; 6:15; (b) husband Gn 18:12 (J); (c) prophet 1 K 18:7, 13 2 K 2:19, 4:16, 28; 6:5; 8:5; (d) prince Gn 42:10 (E), 23:6, 11, 15 (P), 43:20; 44:18 +, 47:18, + (J, 12 times); Ju 4:18; (e) king 1 S 22:12 + (S & K 75 times); (f) father Gn 31:35 (E); (g) Moses Ex 32:22 Nu 11:28; 12:11; 32:25, 27 (J); 36:2(×2) (P); (h) priest 1 S 1:15, 26(×2); (i) theophanic angel Jos 5:14 Ju 6:13; (j) captain 2 S 11:11; (k) general recognition of superiority Gn 24:18; 32:5 +; 33:8 +; 44:7 + (J, 13 times), Ru 2:13 1 S 25:24 + (15 times); (2) ref. to God: אֲדֹנָי e.g. Exodus 21:5
- a. my Lord Gn 20:4 (?E) Ex 15:17 (Sam. יהוה) elsewhere in Hex, J; Gn 18:3(?), 27, 30, 31, 32; 19:2, 18(?) Ex 4:10, 13; 5:22; 34:9 Nu 14:17 Jos 7:8; also Ju 6:15; 13:8; not S; 1 K 22:6 2 K 19:23; noChron exc. memorials Ezr 10:3 (ref. to Ezra) Ne 1:11; 4:8; WisdLt only Jb 28:28 (doubtless scrib. error for יהוֹה of many MSS.); not Ho; Is 37:24; 38:16 (hist. part); exile Is 49:14 (cf. 51:22); Mi 1:2 ψ 16:2 + (47 times, chiefly this sense, exc. sub b.; cf. אֱלֹהַי וַאדֹנָי my Lord and my God ψ 35:23; (writers that use אֱלהִים seld. use אֲדֹנָי); e.g. Genesis 20:4
- b. Adonay n.pr. of God, parallel with Yahweh, substit. for it oft. by scrib. error, & eventually supplanting it. In earlier Is 3:17 + (19 times seeming to belong here), Am 7:7, 8; 9:1 Ez 18:25, 29; 33:17, 20; 21:12 (prob. אֲדֹנָי י׳ as in usual phrase); Zc 9:4 Mal 1:12, 14 La 1:14 + (14 times) ψ 2:4; 37:13; 78:65; 90:17 (? יהוה) 110:5 (Dalman puts most of these sub (a);—many cases are doubtful); 1 K 3:10, 15 (Mass. אדני for יהוה cf. Dalm. 2 K 7:6; Dalm. rightly questions; he reads יהוה). The phrases אֲדֹנָי אֱלֹהַי ψ 38:16; 86:12, Adonay my God; אֲדֹנָי הָאֱלֹהִים Dn 9:3, א׳ אֱלֹהֵינוּ 9:9, 15, א׳ הָאֵל Dn 9:4 favour taking א׳ Dn 1:2; 9:7, 8 (יהוה?) v 16, 17, 19(×3) as the divine name. e.g. Isaiah 3:17
- 4. אֲדֹנָי יהוה (a) my Lord Yahweh (v. יהוה) Gn 15:2, 8 (JE) Jos 7:7 (J, 𝔊 om. י׳) Dt 3:24; 9:26 Ju 6:22; 16:28 2 S 7 (6times) 1 K 2:26; 8:53; prob. Am 3:7, 8; 7:2, 4, 5; 9:8 Je 1:6; 4:10; 14:13; 32:17, 25 Ez 4:14; 8:1; 9:8; 11:13; 20:39; 37:3 (יָדַע כִּי אֲני א׳ י׳) 13:9; 23:49; 24:24; 28:24; 29:16 inappropriate in mouth of God; del. אֲדֹנָי (Co) or read י׳ אֱלֹהֵיכֶם (Dalm.); Mi 1:2 Zp 1:7 Ob 1 Zc 9:14 ψ 71:5, 16; 73:28; (b) appar. n.pr. Adonay Yahweh Is 25:8 Je 44:26; exil. Is 40:10 + (10 times, but 61:1, 11 read יהוה, 𝔊); (c) uncertain whether (a) or (b) in proph. formula אָמַר א׳ י׳ Is 7:7; 28:16; 30:15; 49:22; 52:4; 65:13 Je 7:20 Am 1:8; 3:11; 5:3; 7:6 Ob 1 Ez (131 times); נְאֻם א׳ י׳ Is 56:8 Je 2:22 Am 3:13; 4:5; 8:3, 9, 11 Ez (80 times); דְּבַר־א׳ י׳ Ez 6:3; 25:3; 36:4; נִשְׁבַּע א׳ י׳ Am 4:2; 6:8; כֹּה הִרְאַנִי א׳ י׳ Am 7:1, 4; 8:1. e.g. Genesis 15:2
- 5. יהוה אֲדֹנָי Yahweh my Lord ψ 68:21; 109:21; 140:8; 141:8 Hb 3:19. e.g. Psalms 68:21
- 6. אֲדֹנָי יהוה צְבָאוֹת (a) my Lord Yahweh Ṣ. (v. צבאות) ψ 69:7 Am 9:5 Is 10:23; 22:5, 12; 28:22 cf. י׳ אֱלֹהֵי הַצְבָאוֹת א׳, Yahweh, the God of Hosts my Lord Am 5:16; (b) a divine name, Adonay, Yahweh Ṣ. Je 46:10(×2); 50:25; (c) uncertain are כֹּה אָמַר א׳ י׳ צ׳ Is 10:24; 22:14, 15; נְאֻם א׳ י׳ צ׳ Is 3:15 Je 2:19; 49:5; 50:31. e.g. Psalms 69:7
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. Mal 3:1 lord (Ph. אדן)—א׳ ψ 12:5 + cstr. אֲדוֹן Jos 3:11 +; pl. אֲדֹנִים Is 26:13 +; cstr. אֲדֹנֵי Dt 10:17 +; sf. אֲדֹנֵינוּ 1 S 25:14 + etc.; (אֲדֹנִי, אֲדֹנַי, אֲדֹנָי are variations of Mass. pointing to distinguish divine reference fr. human. Pl., with few except an intens. pl. of rank; word takes sf. as pl. in all other pers.; so doubtless here. Orig. reading prob. in all cases אֲדֹנַי (v. DalmanDer Gottesname Adonaj; LagBN 188 makes אֲדֹנָי an Aramaic format.); אֲדֹנִי now found in J 51 textual; in E †Gn 31:35; 32:19; 42:10 Ex 21:5; in P †Gn 23:6, 11, 15 Nu 36:2(×2) often S & K in Chr only in sources, 1 Ch 21:3(×3), 23 (= 2 S 24:3, 22) 2 Ch 2:13, 14; Is & Je only in hist. parts Is 36:8, 9, 12 Je 37:20; 38:9; elsewhere †Dn 1:10; 10:16, 17, 19; 12:8 Zc 1:9; 4:4, 5, 13; 6:4 ψ 110:1 Ju 4:18; 6:13 Ru 2:13; בִּי אֲדנָי †Ex 4:10, 13; Jos 7:8 (J) Ju 6:15; 13:8 is referred to God, but בִּי אֲדנִי †Gn 43:20; 44:18 Nu 12:11 (J) 1 S 1:26; 25:24 (+ אני) 1 K 3:17, 26 to human superiors. There is doubt as to אֲדֹנָ֯י Gn 18:3; 19:18; אֲדֹ֯נַי 19:2)—
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Origin: from an unused root (meaning to rule)
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אָדוֹן
- , const. אֲדוֹן (b. h.; lord, judge. Ḥag. 3ᵇ אֲ׳ כל המעשים Lord of all creatures. Y. Kidd. IV, beg. 65ᵇ (allud. to Adon, pr. n., Neh. VII, 61) אין דין אין א׳ there is no justice and not judge. Gen. R. s. 89 (play on Kar, Is. XXX, 23) קירי א׳ Kyri (κύριος) means Lord. e.g. Nehemiah 7:61
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 124 distinct written forms H113 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 64 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H113, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- אדון ʼAddôwn H114 Addon
- אדניבזק ʼĂdônîy-Bezeq H137 Adoni-Bezek
- אדניה ʼĂdônîyâh H138 Adonijah
- אדניצדק ʼĂdônîy-Tsedeq H139 Adoni-zedek
- אדניקם ʼĂdônîyqâm H140 Adonikam
- אדנירם ʼĂdônîyrâm H141 Adoniram
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 6 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 279 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 281 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 18:3
- Exodus 21:4
- Numbers 11:28
- Deuteronomy 10:17
- Judges 3:25
- Ruth 2:13
- 1 Samuel 1:15
- 2 Samuel 1:10
- 1 Kings 1:2
- 2 Kings 2:3
- 1 Chronicles 12:19
- 2 Chronicles 2:14
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
