H5718

`Adayah

ad-aw-yaw'

Proper Name Masculine

or mAdayahuw {ad-aw-yaw'-hoo}; from H5710 and H3050; Jah has adorned; Adajah, the name of eight Israelites:--Adaiah.

Adaiah = "Jehovah has adorned Himself"

1. maternal grandfather of king Josiah of Judah and native of Boscath in the lowlands of Judah
2. a Gershonite Levite and ancestor of Asaph
3. a Benjamite, son of Shimhi
4. a priest, son of Jehoram
5. ancestor of Maaseiah, one of the captains who supported Jehoiada
6. a descendant of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra
7. a descendant of another Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra
8. a descendant of Pharez of the tribe of Judah