Adnah

[ ad-nuh ]

noun

, Bible.

1. a Manassite deserter from Saul's to David's army.
2. a commander in King Jehosaphat's army.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Adnah¹

From Hebrew ʿAdnaḥ

Example Sentences

Adnah suffers unjustly for some years, and his long trial, when a slave, his hardships, struggles and escape, make interesting reading.

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We congratulate him; no one has worked harder for, or is better entitled to, a two hundred and fifty barrel well than Adnah.

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Adnah, he, too, married again!

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He thought he heard Adnah's voice and the sounds of a scuffle in the house, and it gave him inspiration.

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Adnah, smiling happily through the last of her tears, sprang to meet him, and, seizing his hand, drew him down on the couch beside her.

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