Bible Names

Adrammelech: meaning of the name

Adrammelech means “the cloak, glory, grandeur or power of the king.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Adrammelech in Hebrew and Greek

אֲדְרַמֶּלֶךְ H152

ʼĂdrammelek (ad-ram-meh'-lek) — Adrammelek, the name of an Assyrian idol, also of a son of Sennacherib

from H142 (אָדַר) and H4428 (מֶלֶךְ); splendor of (the) king;

People named Adrammelech in the Bible

Adrammelech in Scripture

“Adrammelech” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • 2 Kings 17:31

    And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

  • 2 Kings 19:37

    And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

  • Isaiah 37:38

    And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar–haddon his son reigned in his stead.