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אֲדֹנָי
ʼĂdônây · Hebrew · Strong's H136 · 445 occurrences
The KJV renders 13 different Hebrew and Greek words as “lord”
What it means
the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)
an emphatic form of H113 (אָדוֹן);
How the KJV renders it
lord
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“lord”
also renders rhabboní (G4462), despótēs (G1203), kyrieúō (G2961), kýrios (G2962), ʼâdôwn (H113), baʻal (H1167), gᵉbîyr (H1376), mârêʼ (H4756), çeren (H5633), rab (H7229), rabrᵉbân (H7261), sar (H8269)
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Where it appears
445 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Kings 2:26 · HNcmpc/Sp1cs
To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields, for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”
1 Kings 3:10 · HNcmpc/Sp1cs
This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
1 Kings 3:15 · HNcmpc/Sp1cs
Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.
1 Kings 8:53 · HNcmpc/Sp1cs
For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.”
1 Kings 22:6 · HNcmpc/Sp1cs
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?” They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
2 Kings 7:6 · HC/Ncmpc/Sp1cs
For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us.”
2 Kings 19:23 HNcmpc/Sp1cs2 Samuel 7:18 HNcmpc/Sp1cs2 Samuel 7:19 HNcmpc/Sp1cs2 Samuel 7:20 HNcmpc/Sp1cs2 Samuel 7:22 HNcmpc/Sp1cs2 Samuel 7:28 HNcmpc/Sp1cs2 Samuel 7:29 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 1:8 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 3:7 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 3:8 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 3:11 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 3:13 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 4:2 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 4:5 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 5:3 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 5:16 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 6:8 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 7:1 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 7:2 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 7:4 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 7:5 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 7:6 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 7:7 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 7:8 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 8:1 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 8:3 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 8:9 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 8:11 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 9:1 HNcmpc/Sp1csAmos 9:5 HC/Ncmpc/Sp1csAmos 9:8 HNcmpc/Sp1csDaniel 1:2 HNcmpc/Sp1csDaniel 9:3 HNcmpc/Sp1csDaniel 9:4 HNcmpc/Sp1csDaniel 9:7 HNcmpc/Sp1csDaniel 9:9 HR/Ncmpc/Sp1csDaniel 9:15 HNcmpc/Sp1csDaniel 9:16 HNcmpc/Sp1csDaniel 9:17 HNcmpc/Sp1csDaniel 9:19 HNcmpc/Sp1csDeuteronomy 3:24 HNcmpc/Sp1csDeuteronomy 9:26 HNcmpc/Sp1csDeuteronomy 10:17 HC/NcmpcExodus 4:10 HNcmpc/Sp1csExodus 4:13 HNcmpc/Sp1csExodus 5:22 HNcmpc/Sp1csExodus 15:17 HNcmpc/Sp1csExodus 34:9 HNcmpc/Sp1csEzekiel 2:4 HNcmpc/Sp1csEzekiel 3:11 HNcmpc/Sp1csEzekiel 3:27 HNcmpc/Sp1csEzekiel 4:14 HNcmpc/Sp1csEzekiel 5:5 HNcmpc/Sp1csEzekiel 5:7 HNcmpc/Sp1cs
Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.