Bible Names

Adah: meaning of the name

Adah means “an assembly.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)girl name

Adah in Hebrew and Greek

עָדָה H5711

ʻÂdâh (aw-daw') — Adah, the name of two women

from H5710 (עָדָה); ornament;

People named Adah in the Bible

Adah in Scripture

“Adah” appears in 8 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 4:19

    And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

  • Genesis 4:20

    And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

  • Genesis 4:23

    And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

  • Genesis 36:2

    Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

  • Genesis 36:4

    And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;

  • Genesis 36:10

    These are the names of Esau’s sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.

  • Genesis 36:12

    And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau’s wife.

  • Genesis 36:16

    Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.