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אֲדֹנָי H136

H136 is the Hebrew word אֲדֹנָי, transliterated ʼĂdônây and said ad-o-noy'. The King James Version most often renders it lord.

Word: אֲדֹנָיTransliteration: ʼĂdônâySaid: ad-o-noy'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 417 verses

What it means

the Lord (used as a proper name of God only).

Where it comes from

an emphatic form of H113 (אָדוֹן).

How the King James Version translates it

Across 421 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

lord 398×behold the lord 6×thus hath the lord 5×therefore the lord 3×now o lord 2×oh let not the lord 1×art my lord 1×now lord 1×yet the lord 1×also unto thee o lord 1×even the lord 1×like unto thee o lord 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: (my) Lord.

Verses using אֲדֹנָי

The first 40 of 417 verses, quoted in full.

Genesis 15:2 · KJV

And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

Genesis 15:8 · KJV

And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

Genesis 18:3 · KJV

And said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:

Genesis 18:27 · KJV

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:

Genesis 18:30 · KJV

And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

Genesis 18:31 · KJV

And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.

Genesis 18:32 · KJV

And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.

Genesis 20:4 · KJV

But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?

Exodus 4:10 · KJV

And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

Exodus 4:13 · KJV

And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.

Exodus 5:22 · KJV

And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, LORD, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?

Exodus 15:17 · KJV

Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have established.

Exodus 34:9 · KJV

And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

Numbers 14:17 · KJV

And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my LORD be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

Deuteronomy 3:24 · KJV

O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?

Deuteronomy 9:26 · KJV

I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Joshua 7:7 · KJV

And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!

Joshua 7:8 · KJV

O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!

Judges 6:15 · KJV

And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.

Judges 6:22 · KJV

And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O LORD God! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face.

Judges 13:8 · KJV

Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.

Judges 16:28 · KJV

And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

2 Samuel 7:18 · KJV

Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?

2 Samuel 7:19 · KJV

And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?

2 Samuel 7:20 · KJV

And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.

2 Samuel 7:28 · KJV

And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:

2 Samuel 7:29 · KJV

Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.

1 Kings 2:26 · KJV

And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the LORD God before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

1 Kings 3:10 · KJV

And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing.

1 Kings 8:53 · KJV

For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O LORD God.

1 Kings 22:6 · KJV

Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

2 Kings 7:6 · KJV

For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

2 Kings 19:23 · KJV

By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.

Ezra 10:3 · KJV

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

Nehemiah 1:11 · KJV

O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer.

Nehemiah 4:14 · KJV

And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the LORD, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

Job 28:28 · KJV

And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Psalm 2:4 · KJV

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.

Psalm 16:2 · KJV

O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;

Psalm 22:30 · KJV

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

Common questions

What does Strong's H136 mean?

H136 is the Hebrew word אֲדֹנָי (ʼĂdônây), meaning the Lord (used as a proper name of God only).

How is H136 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it lord (398 times), behold the lord (6 times), thus hath the lord (5 times), therefore the lord (3 times), now o lord (2 times), among others.

How many times does H136 appear in the Bible?

אֲדֹנָי (ʼĂdônây) is tagged in 417 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H136 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: an emphatic form of H113 (אָדוֹן).

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