Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H138
אֲדֹנִיָּה
Adoniahad-o-nee-yaw'
Adonijah
26 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼĂdônîyâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H138is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 19spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H138
Adonijah, the name of three Israelites
The King James renders it: Adonijah.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Adoniah is rendered "Adonijah". It stands 26 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Twenty-two of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 3:4his fourth was Adonijah, the son of Haggith; his fifth was Shephatiah, the son of Abital;
- The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.
The first use
his fourth was Adonijah, the son of Haggith; his fifth was Shephatiah, the son of Abital;
2 Samuel 3:4אֲדֹנִיָּ֣ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty-two of the word's twenty-six uses are in 1 Kings.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Adonijah19
- and Adonijah3
- to Adonijah3
- for Adonijah1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֲדֹנָי | Adonay | Lord | Uses440 |
The words it stands beside
All 26, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
19 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֲדֹנִיָּֽהוּ׃3
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֥ה2
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֗הוּ2
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֣הוּ2
- אֲדֹ֣נִיָּ֔הוּ2
- לַאֲדֹנִיָּ֑הוּ2
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֣ה1
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֖ה1
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֔ה1
- אֲדֹנִיָּֽה׃1
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֖הוּ1
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֙הוּ֙1
and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)19HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)4HR/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3HC/Npm
2 Samuel
one use
his fourth was Adonijah, the son of Haggith; his fifth was Shephatiah, the son of Abital;
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֣הʾadoniyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
1 Kings
twenty-two uses
At that time Adonijah, David’s son by Haggith, began to exalt himself, saying, “I will be king!” And he acquired chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run ahead of him.
- וַאֲדֹנִיָּ֧הvaadoniyahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Adonijah
So Adonijah conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, who supported him.
- אֲדֹנִיָּֽה׃ʾadoniyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s mighty men would not join Adonijah.
- אֲדֹנִיָּֽהוּ׃ʾadoniyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king.
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֗הוּʾadoniyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king, and our lord David does not know it?
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֣הוּʾadoniyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
Go at once to King David and say, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your maidservant, “Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’
- אֲדֹנִיָֽהוּ׃ʾadoniyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
But now, behold, Adonijah has become king, and you, my lord the king, did not know it.
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֖הʾadoniyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
“My lord the king,” said Nathan, “did you say, ‘Adonijah will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne’?
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֖הוּʾadoniyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
For today he has gone down and sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the sons of the king, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’
- אֲדֹנִיָּֽהוּ׃ʾadoniyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
Now Adonijah and all his guests were finishing their feast when they heard the sound of the ram’s horn. “Why is the city in such a loud uproar?” asked Joab.
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֗הוּʾadoniyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
As he was speaking, suddenly Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest arrived. “Come in,” said Adonijah, “for you are a man of valor. You must be bringing good news.”
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֙הוּ֙ʾadoniyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
“Not at all,” Jonathan replied. “Our lord King David has made Solomon king.
- לַאֲדֹנִיָּ֑הוּlaadoniyahupreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Adonijah
At this, all the guests of Adonijah arose in terror and scattered.
- לַאֲדֹנִיָּ֑הוּlaadoniyahupreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Adonijah
But Adonijah, in fear of Solomon, got up and went to take hold of the horns of the altar.
- וַאֲדֹ֣נִיָּ֔הוּvaadoniyahuconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Adonijah
It was reported to Solomon: “Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon, and he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let King Solomon first swear to me not to put his servant to the sword.’”
- אֲדֹ֣נִיָּ֔הוּʾadoniyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
Now Adonijah son of Haggith went to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, and she asked, “Do you come in peace?” “Yes, in peace,” he replied.
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֣הוּʾadoniyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, and sat down on his throne. Then the king had a throne brought for his mother, who sat down at his right hand.
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֑הוּʾadoniyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
So Bathsheba said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as his wife.”
- לַאֲדֹנִיָּ֥הוּlaadoniyahupreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Adonijah
King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Since he is my older brother, you might as well request the kingdom for him and for Abiathar the priest and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”
- לַאֲדֹ֣נִיָּ֔הוּlaadoniyahupreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: for Adonijah
Then King Solomon swore by the LORD: “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if Adonijah has not made this request at the expense of his life.
- אֲדֹ֣נִיָּ֔הוּʾadoniyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
And now, as surely as the LORD lives—the One who established me, who set me on the throne of my father David, and who founded for me a dynasty as He promised—surely Adonijah shall be put to death today!”
- אֲדֹנִיָּֽהוּ׃ʾadoniyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah but not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar.
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֔הʾadoniyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
1 Chronicles
one use
the third was Absalom the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur; the fourth was Adonijah the son of Haggith;
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֥הʾadoniyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
2 Chronicles
one use
accompanied by certain Levites—Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah—along with the priests Elishama and Jehoram.
- וַאֲדֹ֨נִיָּ֧הוּvaadoniyahuconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Adonijah
Nehemiah
one use
Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
- אֲדֹנִיָּ֥הʾadoniyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Adonijah
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.