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NAVE: Addan Addon
EBD: Addon
SMITH: ADDAN ADDON
ISBE: ADDAN ADDON
Addon
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a town in Babylon where Israeli exiles once lived
basis; foundation; the Lord
basis; foundation; the Lord
Hebrew
Strongs #0135: Nda 'Addan
Addan = "strong, firm"1) place in Babylon, from which exiles returned
135 'Addan ad-dawn'
intensive from the same as 134; firm; Addan, anIsraelite:-Addan.
see HEBREW for 0134
Strongs #0114: Nwda 'Addown
Addon = "powerful"1) an Israelite?
114 'Addown ad-done'
probably intensive for 113; powerful; Addon, apparently anIsraelite:-Addon.
see HEBREW for 0113
Addon [EBD]
low, one of the persons named in Neh. 7:61 who could not "shew their father's house" on the return from captivity. This, with similar instances (ver. 63), indicates the importance the Jews attached to their genealogies.
ADDAN [SMITH]
(strong or stony), one of the places from which some of the captivity returned with Zerubbabel to Judea who could not show their pedigree as Israelites. (Ezra 2:59) Called ADDON (Nehemiah 7:61)ADDON [SMITH]
(lord). [ADDAN]ADDAN [ISBE]
ADDAN - ad'-an ('addan; in Neh 'addon; connected in some way with the name of the god Addu): A name mentioned in the list of the returning exiles (Ezr 2:59, duplicated in Neh 7:61). It is one of several names of Babylonian localities from which came men who were unable to declare their genealogy as Israelites.