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Meaning and etymology of the name Adin
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Adin 
There's only one Adin in the Bible. He's mentioned among the family heads who returned from Babylon with Nehemiah (Ezra 2:15, 8:6, Nehemiah 7:20) and who signed the covenant (Nehemiah 10:16).
The name Adin comes from the Hebrew noun  (eden), meaning delight, finery or luxury (2 Samuel 1:24, Psalm 36:8). The feminine variant of this noun is  (edna), denoting delight or pleasure. The only Biblical usage of this noun happens in Genesis 18:12, where Sarah overhears Abraham's visitors state that she will have a son, and wonders if she will experience pleasure in her old age. BDB Theological Dictionary resolutely states that this noun must convey sexual pleasure, but (even though here at Abarim Publications we surely hope that Sarah had a lot of it) Sarah's recorded pleasure was in finally giving birth to a child, not in the making of one.
Another derivative is the adjective
 (adin), which the prophet Isaiah applies to a personification of Babylon's daughter (47:8). In searching for an English word that would describe a woman endowed with this adjective, BDB Theological Dictionary and HAW Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament choose for voluptuous, but (even though here at Abarim Publications we have no objection to women being voluptuous), the text merely implies Babylon to be delightful, much rather like the woman portrayed by Ezekiel (16:10-14). Most modern versions of the Bible translate this adjective with variants of either pleasurable or sensual, but others (Young) read luxurious.
A notable exception is the approach of Alfred Jones (Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names), who proposes an entire new Hebrew root to correspond with an Arabic verb meaning to be flexible or to vacillate, and its derived adjective meaning softness or laxity. Hence the bosom of Babylon's daughter, in the eyes of Alfred Jones, becomes "soft, tender" and the name Adin acquires the meaning of Soft.
NOBS Study Bible Name List too follows this word's noteworthy tendency to stick to women and their desires or pleasures, and reads into the name Adin the meaning of Effeminate.
Other derivatives or related words are the noun
 (ma'adan), meaning delight (to be given to the soul - Proverbs 29:17) or eatable delicacies (Genesis 49:20, Lamentations 4:5); and the verb (adan), meaning to luxuriate or to delight. This verb is used only once: "...and luxuriated/delighted in Thy great goodness." (Nehemiah 9:25).
Here at Abarim Publications we see no reason to type-cast these words into femdom. The name Adin means Delightful or Luxurious.
Related names are
Adina,
Adinah,
Adino,
Adna,
Adnah and
Eden.
Greek Biblical names of similar meaning are
Tryphaena and
Tryphosa.
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