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

Extended Information

• A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 2Ki.17.31

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.

Brown-Driver-Briggs References

Profile

Male • Assyrian god worshipped by Sepharvites in Samaria

Man living at the time of Divided Monarchy

Adrammelech was an Assyrian deity worshipped by the Sepharvite people. (2Ki.17.31)

• A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 2Ki.17.31;
• only referred to as Adrammelech אֲדְרַמֶּלֶךְ.

Adrammelech was an Assyrian god mentioned in the Bible as one of the deities worshipped by the Sepharvite people who were brought to Samaria by the Assyrian king after the conquest of Israel. The Sepharvites burned their children as sacrifices to Adrammelech and Anammelech.

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