Adiel (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. A Simeonite prince who attacked the shepherds of Gedor, 1 Ch 4^": 2. A j>riest, 1 Ch 9'^. 3. Tka father of Azmaveth, David's ireiisviTer, 1 Ch 27^. ADIN (rill ' luxurious ' ?), Ezr 2" 8«, Neh 7* 10", 1 Es 5'" 8^^. The head of a Jewish family, of which some members returned with Zerub., and with Ezra. ADINA (NJ'iy,), a Keubenite chief, one of David's mighty men, 1 Ch 11". ADINO ([Kethibh usyn] 'i^vn Hip 'Adino the Eznite,' B ASeivuv i 'Aawvaloi, A 'ASeiv i 'A(7(i;;'oor). — The Kere is clearly an attempt to introduce some sense into the meaningless Kethibh. The present Heb. text of 2 S 23' must be corrupt, the true reading being preserved in the parallel passage 1 Ch 11" ' JashoDeam, the son of a Hachmonite, he lifted up his spear.' The last clause (wjn hk Tiiy Kir\) was corrupted into usyn u-ijj mn, and then taken erro- neously as a proper name, being treated as an alter- native to the preceding ' Josheb-basshebeth, a Tahchemonite ' (see Jashobeam). B has the addi- tion ouTos iffirdcraTo ttjv po^ipalav aOrov ; but this is not foimd in A, and is, as Wellhausen has pointed out, derived from the LXX tr. of Ch (cf. 2 S 23", where B renders the same words by ii-Z/yetpe rb Sipv airroO). J. F. Stennino. ADINU (A 'AiTpos, B 'AStCXtoi, AV Adin), 1 Es 5", called Adin (A 'A5li>, B 'ASelr), 1 Es 8.— His de- scendants returned with Zerubbabel to the number of 454 (1 Es 5", Ezr 2") or 655 (Neh 7). A second party of 51 (Ezr 8") or 251 (1 Es S^) accompanied Ezra. They are mentioned among ' the chiefs of the people who joined Neh. in a covenant to separate themselves from the heathen (Neh 10"). H. St. J. Thackeray. ADITHAIU [a-VTJ), Jos 15*'.— A town of Judah in the Shephelah. 'The site is unknown. C. R. CONDKB. ADJURh, ADONIJAH 39