Bible Names

Hadad: meaning of the name

Hadad means “joy; noise; clamor.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Hadad in Hebrew and Greek

אֲדַד H111

ʼĂdad (ad-ad') — Adad (or Hadad), an Edomite

probably an orthographical variation for H2301 (חֲדַד);

הֲדַד H1908

Hădad (had-ad') — Hadad, the name of an idol, and of several kings of Edom

probably of foreign origin (compare H111 (אֲדַד));

חֲדַד H2301

Chădad (khad-ad') — Chadad, an Ishmaelite

from H2300 (חָדַד); fierce;

People named Hadad in the Bible

Hadad in Scripture

“Hadad” appears in 12 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 36:35

    And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.

  • Genesis 36:36

    And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

  • 1 Kings 11:14

    And the Lord stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king’s seed in Edom.

  • 1 Kings 11:17

    That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.

  • 1 Kings 11:19

    And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

  • 1 Kings 11:21

    And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.

  • 1 Kings 11:25

    And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:30

    Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,