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Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term

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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H114

אַדּוֹן

ad.don — Addon

Addon = "powerful" an Israelite? Another name of ad.dan (אַדָּן "Addan" H0135)

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Historical dictionary entry

Low, one of the persons named in Neh. 7:61 who could not “shew their father’s house” on the return from captivity. This, with similar instances (ver. 63), indicates the importance the Jews attached to their genealogies.

Scripture references

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.

Scripture cited by this entry (KJV)

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Nehemiah 7:61

And these [were] they which went up [also] from Telmelah, Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, nor their seed, whether they [were] of Israel.

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