Lexical Definition

‎אֲדְרַמֶּלֶךְ‎ ʼĂdrammelek (ad-ram-meh'-lek) Adrammelech ^N:N-M-P
from ‎אָדַר‎ and ‎מֶלֶךְ‎; splendor of (the) king

Adrammelech.

• § Adrammelech = "honour of the king" or "Adar is prince" or "Adar is Counsellor, Decider"
• Adrammelek, the name of an Assyrian idol, also of a son of Sennacherib

1) an idol or god of the Sepharvites, introduced to Israel by Shalmaneser the fifth
2) the son and murderer of Sennacherib

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אַדְרַמֶּ֫לֶךְ‎ proper name, masculine (Adar is prince, Assyrian Adar-malik (?) see KAT^{2 284}, cf, ABK¹⁴⁰; or A. is Counsellor, Decider, compare Dl^{K 52 f}; otherwise Sayce^Rel. Babylonian 7; on Babylonian god Adar see Schr^{KSGW 1880, 19 f} Dl^{K 52 f}, but Sayce^Rel, Babylonian 151 f; Jen^{Ko 457 f} and others read Assyrian name Ninib; on Carthaginian ‎יתנאדר‎ see Bae^{Rel. 54})

1. a god of Sepharvaim 2Kgs 17:31.

2. parricidal son of Sennacherib 2Kgs 19:37; Isa 37:38.

‎אֲדֹרָם‎ see ‎אדנירם‎ below ‎אדון‎. above‎אֲדַרְכּוֺן‎ see ‎דרכמון‎. ‎אֶדְרְעִי‎ see ‎דרע‎.

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