Adonijah = "my lord is Jehovah"

1. fourth son of David and Solomon's rival for the throne

2. Levite sent by Jehoshaphat to teach the Law

3. a chief of the people who co-operated with Nehemiah

(relative part.)

1. which, who

2. that which

(conj)

1. that (in obj clause)

2. when

3. since

4. as

5. conditional if

son, grandson, child, member of a group

1. son, male child

2. grandson

3. children (pl. - male and female)

4. youth, young men (pl.)

5. young (of animals)

6. sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for un- righteous men] or sons of God [for angels]

7. people (of a nation) (pl.)

8. of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.)

9. a member of a guild, order, class

Benaiah = "Jehovah has built" or "Yahweh has built up"

1. one of David's mighty warriors, son of Jehoiada the chief priest, a Levite, set by David over his bodyguard, later having remained faithful to Solomon during Adonijah's attempt on the crown, was raised into the place of Joab as commander-in-chief of the army

2. the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite, one of David's thirty mighty warriors, and the captain of the eleventh monthly course

3. a Simeonite, a prince of the families of Simeon

4. a Levite in the time of David who played with a psaltery on Alamoth

5. a priest in the time of David, appointed to blow the trumpet before the ark

6. a Levite of the sons of Asaph

7. a Levite in the time of Hezekiah

8. Four Israelites in the time of Ezra who had taken strange wives

9. the father of Pelatiah

strong, mighty

strong man, brave man, mighty man

David = "beloved"

1. youngest son of Jesse and second king of Israel

to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out

1. (Qal)

   1. —

      1. to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass

      2. to come about, come to pass

   2. to come into being, become

      1. to arise, appear, come

      2. to become

         1. to become

         2. to become like

         3. to be instituted, be established

   3. to be

      1. to exist, be in existence

      2. to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time)

      3. to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality)

      4. to accompany, be with

2. (Niphal)

   1. to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about

   2. to be done, be finished, be gone

Jehoiada = "Jehovah knows"

1. father of Benaiah, David's mighty warrior

2. leader of the priests who joined David at Hebron

3. high priest at the time of Athaliah's usurpation of the throne of Judah; hid Joash, the king's son, for six years and eventually replaced him on the throne of Judah

4. second priest, or sagan, to Seraiah the high priest

priest, principal officer or chief ruler

1. priest-king (Melchizedek, Messiah)

2. pagan priests

3. priests of Jehovah

4. Levitical priests

5. Zadokite priests

6. Aaronic priests

7. the high priest

not, no

1. not (with verb - absolute prohibition)

2. not (with modifier - negation)

3. nothing (subst)

4. without (with particle)

5. before (of time)

spokesman, speaker, prophet

1. prophet

2. false prophet

3. heathen prophet

Nathan = "giver"

1. a son of David by Bathsheba

2. the eminent prophet in the time of David and Solomon

3. a man of Zobah, father of one of David's mighty warriors

4. father of Azariah who was over the officers of Solomon

5. son of Attai and father of Zabad of the tribe of Judah

6. brother of Joel of the tribe of Judah

7. one of the head men who returned from Babylon with Ezra

8. a man with a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

9. head of a family of Israel who shall mourn when they look on Him whom they pierced

with

1. with

2. against

3. toward

4. as long as

5. beside, except

6. in spite of

Zadok = "righteous"

1. the high priest, son of Ahitub of the house of Eleazar the son of Aaron, and 11th in descent from Aaron; joined David after Saul's death and supported him against Absalom and Adonijah; anointed Solomon as king

2. a priest, son of Meraioth, father of Meshullam of the house of Ahitub; apparently a nephew of 1

3. father of Jerusha, the wife of king Uzziah and mother of king Jotham of Judah

4. son of Baana and repairer of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

5. son of Immer and repairer of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

6. a leader of the people in the time of Nehemiah

7. a scribe appointed by Nehemiah as one of the treasurers over the storehouse

8. a valiant warrior of the tribe of Benjamin who joined David at Hebron. Same as 1?

Rei = "friendly"

1. a person of David's court who remained loyal during Adonijah's rebellion

Shimei or Shimhi or Shimi or Shimea = "renowned"

1. a Benjamite, son of Gera of the house of Saul in the time of David

2. a Benjamite, son of Elah and commissariat officer in the time of Solomon

3. the Ramathite in charge of the vineyards of David

4. son of Gershon and grandson of Levi

5. a Levite, son of Jeduthun and chief of the 10th division of singers in the time of David

6. a Levite of the sons of Heman who took part in the purification of the temple in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah

7. a Levite, brother of Cononiah in charge of receiving the tithes and offerings in the reign of king Hezekiah of Judah

8. a Levite who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

9. a Judaite, son of Pedaiah and brother of Zerubbabel

10. a Simeonite, son of Zacchur

11. a Reubenite, son of Gog and father of Micah

12. one of the sons of Hashum who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

13. one of the sons of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

14. a Benjamite, son of Kish, father of Jair, and grandfather of Mordecai in the time of Esther

15. a Levite, son of Jahath, grandson of Gershon, and great grandson of Levi

16. Benjamite, father of Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath. Spelled 'Shimhi'