Bible Names

Adullam: meaning of the name

Adullam means “their testimony; their prey; their ornament.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Adullam in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Adullam

Adullam in Scripture

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

  • Joshua 12:15

    The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

  • Joshua 15:35

    Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,

  • 1 Samuel 22:1

    David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him.

  • 2 Samuel 23:13

    And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.

  • 1 Chronicles 11:15

    Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

  • 2 Chronicles 11:7

    And Beth–zur, and Shoco, and Adullam,

  • Nehemiah 11:30

    Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beer–sheba unto the valley of Hinnom.

  • Micah 1:15

    Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.