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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 · H5726
a.dul.la.mi — Adullamite
Someone from Adullam Group of a.dul.lam (עֲדֻלָּם "Adullam" H5725) § Adullamite, of Adullam "justice of the people" an inhabitant of Adullam
3 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →An inhabitant of the city of Adullam (Gen. 38:1, 12, 20).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
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And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name [was] Hirah.
And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive [his] pledge from the woman’s hand: but he found her not.
