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

grasp, take hold, seize, take possession

1. (Qal) to grasp, take hold of

2. (Niphal) to be caught, grasped, be settled

3. (Piel) to enclose, overlay

4. (Hophal) fastened

if

1. conditional clauses

   1. of possible situations

   2. of impossible situations

2. oath contexts

   1. no, not

3. if...if, whether...or, whether...or...or

4. when, whenever

5. since

6. interrogative particle

7. but rather

to say, speak, utter

1. (Qal) to say, to answer, to say in one's heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend

2. (Niphal) to be told, to be said, to be called

3. (Hithpael) to boast, to act proudly

4. (Hiphil) to avow, to avouch

sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative

behold, lo, see, if

sword, knife

1. sword

2. knife

3. tools for cutting stone

day, time, year

1. day (as opposed to night)

2. day (24 hour period)

   1. as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1

   2. as a division of time

      1. a working day, a day's journey

3. days, lifetime (pl.)

4. time, period (general)

5. year

6. temporal references

   1. today

   2. yesterday

   3. tomorrow

to fear, revere, be afraid

1. (Qal)

   1. to fear, be afraid

   2. to stand in awe of, be awed

   3. to fear, reverence, honour, respect

2. (Niphal)

   1. to be fearful, be dreadful, be feared

   2. to cause astonishment and awe, be held in awe

   3. to inspire reverence or godly fear or awe

3. (Piel) to make afraid, terrify

(TWOT) to shoot, pour

to die, kill, have one executed

1. (Qal)

   1. to die

   2. to die (as penalty), be put to death

   3. to die, perish (of a nation)

   4. to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct)

2. (Polel) to kill, put to death, dispatch

3. (Hiphil) to kill, put to death

4. (Hophal)

   1. to be killed, be put to death

      1. to die prematurely

altar

king

to be conspicuous, tell, make known

1. (Hiphil) to tell, declare

   1. to tell, announce, report

   2. to declare, make known, expound

   3. to inform of

   4. to publish, declare, proclaim

   5. to avow, acknowledge, confess

      1. messenger (participle)

2. (Hophal) to be told, be announced, be reported

slave, servant

1. slave, servant, man-servant

2. subjects

3. servants, worshippers (of God)

4. servant (in special sense as prophets, Levites etc)

5. servant (of Israel)

6. servant (as form of address between equals)

horn

1. horn

2. of strength (fig)

3. flask (container for oil)

4. horn (as musical instrument)

5. horn (of horn-like projections on the altar)

6. of rays of light

7. hill

   proper locative noun (BDB)

a place conquered by Israel probably in Bashan

to swear, adjure

1. (Qal) sworn (participle)

2. (Niphal)

   1. to swear, take an oath

   2. to swear (of Jehovah by Himself)

   3. to curse

3. (Hiphil)

   1. to cause to take an oath

   2. to adjure

Solomon = "peace"

1. son of David by Bathsheba and 3rd king of Israel; author of Proverbs and Song of Songs