אָדוֹן

adon · lord, master

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H113 · appears 328 times in the Bible

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What it means

adon (אָדוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lord, master”.

Lord: one who has authority over another (an owner, a husband, a superior). It is also a polite form, "my lord". Said of God, "the Lord".

How to say it

a·don

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

The one with authority over another; or a respectful title.
The Lord, said of God.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Lord: one who has authority over another. BDB defines it as sovereign, controller, human or divine. Said to God with the form proper to God, the word is אֲדֹנָי, “Adonai” (H136).

The husband Genesis 18:12
The owner of a servant or slave Genesis 24:12 Exodus 21:4
Courtesy: “my lord” Genesis 42:10
“My lord”, said of a king Psalms 110:1
With the article, said of God: “the Lord, YHWH” Exodus 23:17

How we translate it

“Lord” 251 times, “master” 62, “masters” 7, “lords” 6. This edition writes “lord” for a husband, a superior or in courtesy (“my lord Abraham”), and “master” for the owner of a slave in the laws (Exodus 21:4). With the article and referring to God (הָאָדֹן יְהוָה) it writes “the Lord, YHWH”: it is not the form “Adonai”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

lord ×251
master ×62
masters ×7
lords ×6
Adonai ×1
owner ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

Genesis 18:3
He said, “Adonai, if I have found favor in your eyes, please do not pass by your servant.
Genesis 18:12
So Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I am worn out, will I have pleasure, and my lord is old?”
Genesis 19:2
He said, “Look now, my lords, please turn aside to the house of your servant, spend the night, and wash your feet; then you can rise early and go on your way.” They said, “No, we will spend the night in the square.”
Genesis 23:6
“Hear us, my lord: you are a chief of Elohim among us. In the choicest of our graves bury your dead. No one of us will withhold his grave from you for burying your dead.”
Genesis 23:11
“No, my lord, hear me: the field I give you, and the cave that is in it I give it to you. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you; bury your dead.”
Genesis 23:15
“My lord, hear me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, between me and you, what is that? So bury your dead.”
Genesis 24:9
The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his lord and swore to him concerning this matter.
Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten camels from the camels of his lord and went, with all kinds of good things of his lord in his hand. He rose and went to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor.
Genesis 24:12
And he said, “YHWH, the Elohim of my lord Abraham, please make it happen before me today, and show loyal love to my lord Abraham.
Genesis 24:14
Let it be that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your jar so that I may drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I will also water your camels,’ she is the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown loyal love to my lord.”
Genesis 24:18
She said, “Drink, my lord.” And she quickly lowered her jar onto her hand and gave him a drink.
Genesis 24:27
and said, “Blessed be YHWH, the Elohim of my lord Abraham, who has not abandoned his loyal love and his faithfulness toward my lord. As for me, YHWH has led me on the way to the house of my lord’s brothers.”
Genesis 24:35
YHWH has blessed my lord greatly, and he has become great. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male slaves and female slaves, camels and donkeys.
Genesis 24:36
Sarah, my lord’s wife, bore a son to my lord after she had grown old, and he has given him all that he has.
Genesis 24:37
My lord made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live;
Genesis 24:39
I said to my lord, ‘Perhaps the woman will not come after me.’
Genesis 24:42
I came today to the spring and said, ‘YHWH, the Elohim of my lord Abraham, if now you are making successful my journey on which I am going,
Genesis 24:44
and who says to me, “Drink, you too, and I will also draw water for your camels,” she is the woman whom YHWH has appointed for the son of my lord.’
Genesis 24:48
And I bowed my head and bowed down to YHWH, and I blessed YHWH, the Elohim of my lord Abraham, who had led me on a true way to take the daughter of my lord’s brother for his son.
Genesis 24:49
So now, if you are going to show loyal love and faithfulness to my lord, tell me; and if not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right or to the left.”
Genesis 24:51
Look, Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be the wife of your lord’s son, as YHWH has spoken.”
Genesis 24:54
He and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they rose in the morning, he said, “Send me away to my lord.”
Genesis 24:56
He said to them, “Do not delay me, since YHWH has made successful my journey. Send me away so that I may go to my lord.”
Genesis 24:65
She said to the servant, “Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “He is my lord.” So she took the veil and covered herself.
Genesis 31:35
She said to her father, “Do not let my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the teraphim.
Genesis 32:4
He commanded them, saying, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: ‘Thus says your servant Jacob: With Laban I have resided as an alien and stayed until now.
Genesis 32:5
I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male slaves, and slave women; and I have sent to tell my lord, to find favor in your eyes.’”
Genesis 32:18
then you shall say, ‘They are your servant’s, Jacob’s. It is a gift sent to my lord, to Esau; and look, he too is behind us.’”
Genesis 33:8
He said, “What do you mean by all this camp that I met?” He said, “To find favor in the eyes of my lord.”
Genesis 33:13
He said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and the cattle that are nursing their young are in my care; if they are driven hard one day, all the flock will die.
Genesis 33:14
Please let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, at the pace of the livestock that is ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”
Genesis 33:15
Esau said, “Let me leave, please, with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “Why this? Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.”
Genesis 39:2
YHWH was with Joseph, and he became a successful man; and he was in the house of his lord the Egyptian.
Genesis 39:3
His lord saw that YHWH was with him and that all that he did, YHWH made successful in his hand.
Genesis 39:7
After these things, his lord’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.”
Genesis 39:8
But he refused and said to his lord’s wife, “Look, with me here my lord does not concern himself with what is in the house, and all that he has he has put in my hand.
Genesis 39:16
She laid his garment beside her until his lord came home.
Genesis 39:19
When his lord heard the words of his wife that she spoke to him, saying, “According to these words your slave treated me,” his anger burned.
Genesis 39:20
Joseph’s lord took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined; and he was there in the prison.
Genesis 40:1
It happened after these things that the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and the baker sinned against their lord, the king of Egypt.

And 288 more times.