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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 · H140
a.do.ni.qam — Adonikam
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.13 § Adonikam = "my lord arose" the head of an Israelite clan who returned from exile
3 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Whom the Lord sets up, one of those “which came with Zerubbabel” (Ezra 2:13). His “children,” or retainers, to the number of 666, came up to Jerusalem (8:13).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
Read the quoted verses in their chapters to evaluate the historical dictionary references.
The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.
