Bible Names

Adaiah: meaning of the name

Adaiah means “the witness of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Adaiah in Hebrew and Greek

עֲדָיָה H5718

ʻĂdâyâh (ad-aw-yaw') — Adajah, the name of eight Israelites

or עֲדָיָהוּ; from H5710 (עָדָה) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has adorned;

People named Adaiah in the Bible

Adaiah in Scripture

“Adaiah” appears in 9 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 2 Kings 22:1

    Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:41

    The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,

  • 1 Chronicles 8:21

    And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi;

  • 1 Chronicles 9:12

    And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

  • 2 Chronicles 23:1

    And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.

  • Ezra 10:29

    And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.

  • Ezra 10:39

    And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,

  • Nehemiah 11:5

    And Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Col–hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.