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Lexicon :: Strong's H136 - 'ăḏōnāy

Aa
אֲדֹנָי
Transliteration
'ăḏōnāy
Pronunciation
ad-o-noy'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
An emphatic form of אָדוֹן (H113)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 27b

Strong’s Definitions

אֲדֹנָי ʼĂdônây, ad-o-noy'; an emphatic form of H113; the Lord (used as a proper name of God only):—(my) Lord.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 434x

The KJV translates Strong's H136 in the following manner: Lord (431x), lord (2x), God (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 434x
The KJV translates Strong's H136 in the following manner: Lord (431x), lord (2x), God (1x).
  1. my lord, lord

    1. of men

    2. of God

  2. Lord - title, spoken in place of Yahweh in Jewish display of reverence

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲדֹנָי ʼĂdônây, ad-o-noy'; an emphatic form of H113; the Lord (used as a proper name of God only):—(my) Lord.
STRONGS H136: Abbreviations
אָדוֺן noun masculine
בִּי אֲדנָי Exodus 4:10, 13; Joshua 7:8 (J) Judges 6:15; Judges 13:8 is referred to God
(2) reference to God: אֲדֹנָי
a. my Lord Genesis 20:4 (? E) Exodus 15:17 (Samaritan יהוה) elsewhere in Hexateuch, J; Genesis 18:3(?); Genesis 18:27, 30, 31, 32; [H113 Genesis 19:2, 18(?)] Exodus 4:10; Exodus 4:13; Exodus 5:22; Exodus 34:9; Numbers 14:17; Joshua 7:8; also Judges 6:15; Judges 13:8; not Samuel; 1 Kings 22:6; 2 Kings 19:23; not Chron. except memorials Ezra 10:3 (reference to Ezra) Nehemiah 1:11; Nehemiah 4:8 [Nehemiah 4:14]; Wisdom Literature only Job 28:28 (doubtless scribal error for יהוֺה of many MSS.); not Hosea; Isaiah 37:24; [H3068 Isaiah 38:14], 16 (historical part); exile Isaiah 49:14 (compare H113 Isaiah 51:22); Micah 1:2; Psalm 16:2 + (47 times, chiefly this sense, except below b.; compare אֱלֹהַי וַאדֹנָי my Lord and my God Psalm 35:23; (writers that use אֱלֹהִים seldom use אֲדֹנָי);
b. Adonay proper name of God, parallel with Yahweh, substitution for it often by scribal error, & eventually supplanting it. In earlier Isaiah 3:17 + (19 times seeming to belong here), Amos 7:7, 8; Amos 9:1; Ezekiel 18:25, 29; Ezekiel 33:17, 20; (H3068 Ezekiel 21:14 [Ezekiel 21:9]) (probably אֲדֹנָי י׳ as in usual phrase); Zechariah 9:4; [H3068 Malachi 1:12], 14; Lamentations 1:14 + (14 times) Psalm 2:4; Psalm 37:13; Psalm 78:65; [H3068 Psalm 90:17] (? יהוה) Psalm 110:5 (Dalman puts most of these below (a); — many cases are doubtful); 1 Kings 3:10, [H3068 1 Kings 3:15] (Masoretic אדני for יהוה compare Dalm 2 Kings 7:6; Dalm rightly questions; he reads יהוה). The phrases אֲדֹנָי אֱלֹהַי Psalm 38:16 [Psalm 38:15]; Psalm 86:12, Adonay my God; אֲדֹנָי הָאֱלֹהִים Daniel 9:3, אֱלֹהֵינוּ א׳ Daniel 9:9, 15, הָאֵל א׳ Daniel 9:4 favour taking א׳ Daniel 1:2; Daniel 9:7, 8 (יהוה ?) Daniel 9:16; Daniel 9:17; Daniel 9:19; Daniel 9:19; Daniel 9:19 as the divine name.
4. אֲדֹנָי יהוה
(a) my Lord Yahweh (see H3068 יהוה) Genesis 15:2, 8 (JE) Joshua 7:7 (J, Greek Version of the LXX omit י׳) Deuteronomy 3:24; Deuteronomy 9:26; Judges 6:22; Judges 16:28; [H3068 2 Samuel 7:1] (6 times) 1 Kings 2:26; 1 Kings 8:53; probably Amos 3:7, 8; Amos 7:2, 4, 5; Amos 9:8; Jeremiah 1:6; Jeremiah 4:10; Jeremiah 14:13; Jeremiah 32:17, 25; Ezekiel 4:14; Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 9:8; Ezekiel 11:13; Ezekiel 20:49; Ezekiel 37:3 (יָדַע כִּי אֲני א׳ י׳) Ezekiel 13:9; Ezekiel 23:49; Ezekiel 24:24; Ezekiel 28:24; Ezekiel 29:16 inappropriate in mouth of God; strike out אֲדֹנָי (Co) or read אֱלֹהֵיכֶם י׳ (Dalm); Micah 1:2; Zephaniah 1:7; Obadiah 1; Zechariah 9:14; Psalm 71:5; Psalm 71:16; Psalm 73:28;
(b) apparently proper name Adonay Yahweh Isaiah 25:8; Jeremiah 44:26; exile Isaiah 40:10 + (10 times, but Isaiah 61:1, 11 read יהוה, Greek Version of the LXX);
(c) uncertain whether (a) or (b) in prophetic formula אָמַר י׳ א׳ Isaiah 7:7; Isaiah 28:16; Isaiah 30:15; Isaiah 49:22; Isaiah 52:4; Isaiah 65:13; Jeremiah 7:20; Amos 1:8; Amos 3:11; Amos 5:3; Amos 7:6; Obadiah 1; Ezekiel (131 times); י׳ נְאֻם א׳ Isaiah 56:8; Jeremiah 2:22; Amos 3:13; Amos 4:5; Amos 8:3, 9, 11; Ezekiel (80 times); י׳ דְּבַר־א׳ Ezekiel 6:3; Ezekiel 25:3; Ezekiel 36:4; י׳ נִשְׁבַּע א׳ Amos 4:2; Amos 6:8; י׳ כֹּה הִרְאַנִי א׳ Amos 7:1, 4; Amos 8:1.
5. יהוה אֲדֹנָי Yahweh my Lord Psalm 68:21 [Psalm 68:20]; Psalm 109:21; Psalm 140:8 [Psalm 140:7]; Psalm 141:8; Habakkuk 3:19.
6. אֲדֹנָי יהוה צְבָאוֺת
(a) my Lord Yahweh Ṣ (see H6635 צבאות) Psalm 69:7 [Psalm 69:6]; Amos 9:5; Isaiah 10:23; Isaiah 22:5, 12; Isaiah 28:22 compare אֱלֹהֵי הַצְבָאוֺת א׳ י׳, Yahweh, the God of Hosts my Lord Amos 5:16;
(b) a divine name, Adonay, Yahweh Jeremiah 46:10 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 50:25;
(c) uncertain are צ׳ י׳ כֹּה אָמַר א׳ Isaiah 10:24; Isaiah 22:14, 15; נְאֻם א׳ צ׳ י׳ Isaiah 3:15; Jeremiah 2:19; Jeremiah 49:5; Jeremiah 50:31.

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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

15:2; 15:8; 18:3; 18:27; 18:30; 18:31; 18:32; 20:4

Exodus

4:10; 4:10; 4:13; 4:13; 5:22; 15:17; 34:9

Numbers

14:17

Deuteronomy

3:24; 9:26

Joshua

7:7; 7:8; 7:8

Judges

6:15; 6:15; 6:22; 13:8; 13:8; 16:28

1 Kings

2:26; 3:10; 8:53; 22:6

2 Kings

7:6; 19:23

Ezra

10:3

Nehemiah

1:11; 4:14

Job

28:28

Psalms

2:4; 16:2; 35:23; 37:13; 38:15; 68:20; 69:6; 71:5; 71:16; 73:28; 78:65; 86:12; 109:21; 110:5; 140:7; 141:8

Isaiah

3:15; 3:17; 7:7; 10:23; 10:24; 22:5; 22:12; 22:14; 22:15; 25:8; 28:16; 28:22; 30:15; 37:24; 38:16; 40:10; 49:14; 49:22; 52:4; 56:8; 61:1; 61:11; 65:13

Jeremiah

1:6; 2:19; 2:22; 4:10; 7:20; 14:13; 32:17; 32:25; 44:26; 46:10; 49:5; 50:25; 50:31

Lamentations

1:14

Ezekiel

4:14; 6:3; 8:1; 9:8; 11:13; 13:9; 18:25; 18:29; 20:49; 23:49; 24:24; 25:3; 28:24; 29:16; 33:17; 33:20; 36:4; 37:3

Daniel

1:2; 9:3; 9:4; 9:7; 9:8; 9:9; 9:15; 9:16; 9:17; 9:19; 9:19; 9:19

Amos

1:8; 3:7; 3:8; 3:11; 3:13; 4:2; 4:5; 5:3; 5:16; 6:8; 7:1; 7:2; 7:4; 7:4; 7:5; 7:6; 7:7; 7:8; 8:1; 8:3; 8:9; 8:11; 9:1; 9:5; 9:8

Obadiah

1; 1

Micah

1:2; 1:2

Habakkuk

3:19

Zephaniah

1:7

Zechariah

9:4; 9:14

Malachi

1:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H136 matches the Hebrew אֲדֹנָי ('ăḏōnāy),
which occurs 445 times in 430 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 5 / 9 (Eze 13:9–Eze 20:47)

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9 - “So My hand will be against the prophets who see worthless visions and utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of My people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, [fn]that you may know that I am Lord H136 Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:13 - Therefore, thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “I will make a stormy wind break out in My wrath. There will also be in My anger a flooding rain and hailstones to consume it in wrath.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:16 - the prophets of Israel who prophesy to Jerusalem and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace,’ declares Lord H136 Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:18 - and say, ‘Thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “Woe to the women who sew magic bands on [fn]all wrists and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature to hunt down [fn]souls! Will you hunt down My people’s souls, but preserve your own souls?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:20 -

Therefore, thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “Behold, I am against your magic bands by which you hunt souls there as [fn]birds, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let their souls go, the very souls whom you hunt as [fn]birds.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:4 - “Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘Thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “Any man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I Yahweh will be brought to give him an answer [fn]in light of it, [fn]in light of the multitude of his idols,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:6 -

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “[fn]Turn back and turn away from your idols and turn your faces away from all your abominations.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:11 - in order that the house of Israel may no longer wander from Me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Thus they will be My people, and I shall be their God,”’ declares Lord H136 Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:14 - even though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job were in its midst, by their own righteousness they could only deliver themselves,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:16 - though these three men were in its midst, as I live,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh, “they could not deliver either their sons or their daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the country would become desolate.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:18 - even though these three men were in its midst, as I live,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh, “they could not deliver either their sons or their daughters, but they alone would be delivered.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:20 - even though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in its midst, as I live,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh, “they could not deliver either their son or their daughter. They would deliver only themselves by their righteousness.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21 -

For thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “How much more when I send My four calamitous judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague to cut off man and beast from it!

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:23 - “Then they will comfort you when you see their way and actions, so you will know that I have not done in vain all that I did [fn]to it,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:6 - “Therefore, thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, ‘As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:8 - ‘Thus I will give over the land to desolation because they have acted unfaithfully,’” declares Lord H136 Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 - and say, ‘Thus says Lord H136 Yahweh to Jerusalem, “Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:8 -

“Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold, [fn]you were at the time for love; so I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became Mine,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:14 - “Then your name went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My majesty which I set on you,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:19 - “Also My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey with which I had you eat, you gave before them for a soothing aroma; so it happened,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:23 -

“Now it happened after all your evil-‘Woe, woe to you!’ declares Lord H136 Yahweh

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:30 -

“How languishing is your heart,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh, “while you do all these things, the actions of a [fn]bold-faced harlot.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - Thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to [fn]idols,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:43 - “Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but [fn]have enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will bring your way down on your own head,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh, “so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:48 - “As I live,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh, “Sodom your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:59 - For thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “I will also do with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:63 - so that you may remember and be ashamed and never open your mouth anymore because of your dishonor, when I have atoned for you for all that you have done,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:3 - and you will say, ‘Thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “A great eagle with great wings, long pinions, and a full plumage of [fn]many colors came to Lebanon and took away the top of the cedar.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:9 - “Say, ‘Thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “Will it succeed? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it dries up—so that all its sprouting leaves dry up? And neither by great [fn]strength nor by many people can it be raised from its roots again.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16 - ‘As I live,’ declares Lord H136 Yahweh, ‘Surely in the [fn]country of the king who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, [fn]in Babylon he shall die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:19 - Therefore, thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “As I live, surely My oath which he despised and My covenant which he broke, I will [fn]put on his head.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:22 -

Thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “I will also take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and set it out; I will pluck from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on an exalted and lofty mountain.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:3 -

“As I live,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh, “you are surely not going to use this proverb in Israel anymore.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:9 - if he walks in My statutes and My judgments and is careful to do the truth—he is righteous and will surely live,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:23 - “Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh, “is it not that he should turn from his ways and live?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:25 - “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord H136 is not right.’ Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:29 - “But the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord H136 is not right.’ Are My ways not right, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not right?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:30 -

“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his way,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh. “[fn]Turn back and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:32 - “For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh. “Therefore, [fn]turn back and live.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:3 - “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘Thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “Do you come to inquire of Me? As I live,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh, “I will not be inquired of by you.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:5 - and say to them, ‘Thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “On the day when I chose Israel and [fn]swore to the seed of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am Yahweh your God,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:27 -

“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, ‘Thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed Me by acting unfaithfully against Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:30 - “Therefore, say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “Will you defile yourselves in the way of your fathers and play the harlot after their detestable things?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31 - [fn]And when you offer your gifts, when you cause your sons to pass through the fire, you are defiling yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh, “I will not be inquired of by you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:33 -

“As I live,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh, “surely with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I shall be king over you.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:36 - “As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:39 -

“As for you, O house of Israel,” thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “Go, serve everyone his idols; [fn]but after this you will surely listen to Me, and My holy name you will profane no longer with your gifts and with your idols.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:40 - “For on My holy mountain, on the high mountain of Israel,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh, “there the whole house of Israel, all of them, will serve Me in the land; there I will accept them, and there I will [fn]seek your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your holy things.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:44 - “Then you will know that I am Yahweh when I have dealt with you for My name’s sake, not according to your evil ways or according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel,” declares Lord H136 Yahweh.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:47 - and say to the forest of the Negev, ‘Hear the word of Yahweh: thus says Lord H136 Yahweh, “Behold, I am about to kindle a fire in you, and it will consume every [fn]green tree in you, as well as every dry tree; the blazing flame will not be quenched, and [fn]the whole surface from south to north will be scorched by it.

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