Adah

"Ornament." The name of various biblical personages:

  1. The first of Lamech's two wives, and the mother of Jabal and Jubal.1
  2. The first of Esau's three wives, the daughter of Elon the Hittite,2 called also Bashemath.3

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References

Notes

  1. Gen. 4:19, 20, 23.
  2. 36:2, 4.
  3. 26:34.

Source

  • Easton, M.G. (1897). Easton's Bible Dictionary. New York: Harper & Brothers.

This article incorporates text from Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) by M.G. Easton, which is in the public domain.