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How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5720
a.din — Adin
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.15 § Adin = "dainty" or "delicate" 1) ancestor of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel 2) a chief among the returned exiles who signed the covenant with Nehemiah
4 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Effeminate. (1.) Ezra 8:6. (2.) Neh. 10:16.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
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Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.
Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four.
