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Literally, "my Lord"
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adonai
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Word definitions for adonai in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old Testament word for "God," late 14c., from Medieval Latin, from Hebrew, literally "my lord," from adon (see Adonis ) + suffix of 1st person.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adonai \Ad`o*na"i\, n. [Heb. ad[=o]n[=a]i, lit., my lord.] A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word ``Lord''. Note: The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the tetragrammaton Yhvh , or Ihvh , ``the incommunicable ...
Usage examples of adonai.
I do not think Adonai will make His sacred name known any more to the Children of Yisra-El.
Elua that he wandered forgotten for a hundred years while Adonai grieved for your Yeshua!
Always before, in our time of need, the Voice of Adonai rang forth between the cherubim, proclaiming His fearful Name.
Even now, to this day, the priests of the line of Aaron are born tongueless and dumb, keepers of a useless treasure, which we must hide from the eyes of Adonai, the Lord our God, lest he remember and smite us for our folly.
While Adonai grieved for His son, Blessed Elua wandered unheeded, aided only by his Companions.
Who are these angels, these Companions, to defy the will of Adonai and be worshipped as gods?
And I prayed, in that twilight, to the goddess Asherat, to Blessed Elua and his Companions, to Isis who knit the sundered pieces of her beloved Osiris, and to Adonai Himself, the One God of the Habiru.
It is for Adonai Himself, and it is the wisdom of the women of Tisaar to know it, and hide no longer from the Will of God, who has forgotten you these long centuries!
I do not think Adonai will make His sacred name known anymore to the Children of Yisra-El.
Who needs the voice of Adonai speaking between the cherubim when the Mashiach has walked the earth, flesh and blood and somewhat more besides?
For five hours we rowed, and came ere daybreak to this isle I have named Kapporeth, that is the mercy seat of the Luvakh Shabab, may Adonai have mercy upon us all.
Saba was between the Sabaeans themselves and Adonai, the One God, their Lord of Hosts.
And when Adonai sent his Malakhim to retrieve her, she laughed, and opened the book and read aloud a word, commanding them by the Sacred Name to return empty-handed.
They clung to their quaint customs and to their own little god, Adonai, despite his impotence before Marduk.
He smiled indulgently when her mother took her to an improvised meeting center in a shabby house near the Kebar where there was endless talk of Adonai and of prophets and wishful prophecies of future deliverance of the Hebrews from their bondage in Babylon.