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אָדוֹן

adon

aw-done'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼâdôwn

sovereign, i.e. controller (human or divine)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

sovereign, i.e. controller (human or divine)

Rendered in the KJV as

lord, master, owner. Compare also names beginning with 'Adoni-'.

  • 333
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 26 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 129
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 333 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 129

  • אֲדֹנִ֣י32
  • אֲדֹנִ֖י26
  • אֲדֹנִ֥י22
  • אֲדֹנִ֔י20
  • אֲדֹנִֽי׃13
  • אֲדֹנִ֑י11
  • אֲדֹנִי֙9
  • אֲדֹנָ֔יו8
  • אֲדֹנָֽיו׃7
  • אֲדֹנִֽי־6
  • אֲדֹנָיו֙6
  • אֲדֹנִ֗י5

and 117 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 55

  • lord my75
  • O lord my50
  • masters his34
  • master my33
  • masters your27
  • to lord my15
  • the lord8
  • and lord my6
  • lords our6
  • masters their6
  • lords his4
  • lords your4

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 30

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular162
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular38
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular27
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular19
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural11
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural9
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural8
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular8
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular6
  • noun · masculine plural5
  • noun · masculine singular5
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)4
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsc/Sp1bs · 162
  • HNcmpc/Sp3ms · 38
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp1bs · 27
  • HNcmpc/Sp2ms · 19
  • HNcmpc/Sp2mp · 11
  • HNcmpc/Sp3mp · 9
  • HNcmpc/Sp1bp · 8
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 8
  • HC/Ncmsc/Sp1bs · 6
  • HNcmpa · 5
  • HNcmsa · 5
  • HNcmpc · 4

All 333, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis72 occurrences
Exodus10 occurrences
Numbers6 occurrences
Deuteronomy4 occurrences
Joshua1 occurrence
Judges7 occurrences
Ruth1 occurrence
1 Samuel38 occurrences
2 Samuel52 occurrences
1 Kings34 occurrences
2 Kings37 occurrences
1 Chronicles5 occurrences
2 Chronicles4 occurrences
Nehemiah3 occurrences
Job1 occurrence
Psalms13 occurrences
Proverbs3 occurrences
Isaiah16 occurrences
Jeremiah6 occurrences
Daniel6 occurrences
Hosea1 occurrence
Amos1 occurrence
Micah1 occurrence
Zephaniah1 occurrence
Zechariah7 occurrences
Malachi3 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).