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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Adah


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Adah Adah

As wife of Lamech the First, Adah is the second woman named in the Bible. In Gensis 36:2 we find another Adah, namely one of two Canaanite wives of Esau.

The word Adah is quite common and there is no way to be sure where this name came from. According to various transliterations that history preserved for us, the name Adah sounds more or less like the first two of the following words that are spelled identical to the name:

1) Adah (ada 1565) means go on, pass by. Derivatives are continuing future, booty, prey, as far as, until, while.
2) Adah (ada 1566) means to ornament, deck oneself. Derivative ornaments.
3) yaad (ya'ad 878) means appoint, betroth, assemble, meet. The derivative Adah (eda 878a) means congregation.
4) ud ('ud 1576) means return, repeat. Derivations Adah (eda 1576c, e) mean witness, testimony/ ies.
5) Adah (idda 1564a) means menstruation.

Both NOBSE and BDB take the name from Adah (ada 1566) and read Ornament.



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