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אֲדֹנָי

Adonay

ad-o-noy'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼĂdônây

the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)

Rendered in the KJV as

(my) Lord.

  • 440
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 25 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 45
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 440 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 45

  • אֲדֹנָ֣י189
  • אֲדֹנָ֥י92
  • אֲדֹנָ֑י22
  • אֲדֹנָ֤י14
  • אֲדֹנָ֗י12
  • אֲדֹנָ֖י11
  • אֲדֹנָי֙10
  • אֲדֹנָ֔י9
  • אֲ֭דֹנָי8
  • אֲ֝דֹנָ֗י7
  • אֲדֹנָ֧י6
  • אֲדֹנָ֨י6

and 33 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 13

  • [the] Lord333
  • O Lord81
  • [am the] Lord5
  • and [the] Lord5
  • [belongs] to [the] Lord4
  • to [the] Lord3
  • [the] lord of2
  • of [the] Lord2
  • [are the] Lord1
  • [belong] to [the] Lord1
  • and O Lord1
  • for [the] Lord1

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

How it parses · 4

  • proper noun (a name)420
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)12
  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)6
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNpt · 420
  • HR/Npt · 12
  • HC/Npt · 6
  • HNcmsc · 2

All 440, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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

Genesis8 occurrences
Exodus6 occurrences
Numbers1 occurrence
Deuteronomy2 occurrences
Joshua4 occurrences
Judges4 occurrences
2 Samuel7 occurrences
1 Kings5 occurrences
2 Kings2 occurrences
Ezra1 occurrence
Nehemiah2 occurrences
Job1 occurrence
Psalms54 occurrences
Isaiah48 occurrences
Jeremiah14 occurrences
Lamentations14 occurrences
Ezekiel222 occurrences
Daniel11 occurrences
Amos25 occurrences
Obadiah1 occurrence
Micah2 occurrences
Habakkuk1 occurrence
Zephaniah1 occurrence
Zechariah2 occurrences
Malachi2 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).