McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Adnah

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Adnah


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(Heb. Adnah’, òִãְðָä . 1, q. Adna), the name of two men.

1. A chiliarch of the tribe of Manasseh, who joined David at Ziklag (1Ch_12:20, where the text has erroneously òִãְðָú , Adnach’; Sept. Å᾿äíÜ , Vulg. Ednas), B.C. 1054.

2. (Sept. ÅäíÜò , Vulg. Ednas.) A Judahite, and principal general under Jehoshaphat, with a force of 300,000 (?) men (2Ch_17:14), B.C. cir. 908.