Hebrew

Lord

אֲדֹנָיStrong’s H0136

adonai (a-do-nai)

Appears in 425 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Adonai is the Hebrew word usually translated “lord”, “o lord” and “lord of”. It appears in 425 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.”

Daniel 1:2 KJV

Meaning

Lord - a title, spoken in place of Yahweh in Jewish display of reverence

How it's translated

lord 339
o lord 81
to lord 8
and lord 5
lord of 2
of lord 2
and o lord 1
in lord 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Ezekiel 215
Psalms 54
Isaiah 48
Amos 24
Jeremiah 13
Lamentations 13

25 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

All 425 verses, by book

Genesis 8: 15:2 15:8 18:27 18:30 18:31 18:32 19:18 20:4
Exodus 5: 4:10 4:13 5:22 15:17 34:9
Numbers 1: 14:17
Deuteronomy 2: 3:24 9:26
Joshua 4: 3:11 3:13 7:7 7:8
Judges 4: 6:15 6:22 13:8 16:28
2 Samuel 6: 7:18 7:19 7:20 7:22 7:28 7:29
1 Kings 5: 2:26 3:10 3:15 8:53 22:6
2 Kings 2: 7:6 19:23
Ezra 1: 10:3
Nehemiah 2: 1:11 4:14
Job 1: 28:28
Psalms 54: 2:4 16:2 22:30 30:8 35:17 35:22 35:23 37:13 38:9 38:15 38:22 39:7 40:17 44:23 51:15 54:4 55:9 57:9 59:11 62:12 66:18 68:11 68:17 68:19 68:20 68:22 68:32 69:6 71:5 71:16 73:20 73:28 77:2 77:7 78:65 79:12 86:3 86:4 86:5 86:8 86:9 86:12 86:15 89:49 89:50 90:1 90:17 109:21 110:5 130:2 130:3 130:6 140:7 141:8
Isaiah 48: 3:15 3:17 3:18 4:4 6:1 6:8 6:11 7:7 7:14 7:20 8:7 9:8 9:17 10:12 10:23 10:24 11:11 21:6 21:8 21:16 22:5 22:12 22:14 22:15 25:8 28:2 28:16 28:22 29:13 30:15 30:20 37:24 38:14 38:16 40:10 48:16 49:14 49:22 50:4 50:5 50:7 50:9 52:4 56:8 61:1 61:11 65:13 65:15
Jeremiah 13: 1:6 2:19 2:22 4:10 7:20 14:13 32:17 32:25 44:26 46:10 49:5 50:25 50:31
Lamentations 13: 1:14 1:15 2:1 2:2 2:5 2:7 2:18 2:19 2:20 3:31 3:36 3:37 3:58
Ezekiel 215: 2:4 3:11 3:27 4:14 5:5 5:7 5:8 5:11 6:3 6:11 7:2 7:5 8:1 9:8 11:7 11:8 11:13 11:16 11:17 11:21 12:10 12:19 12:23 12:25 12:28 13:3 13:8 13:9 13:13 13:16 13:18 13:20 14:4 14:6 14:11 14:14 14:16 14:18 14:20 14:21 14:23 15:6 15:8 16:3 16:8 16:14 16:19 16:23 16:30 16:36 16:43 16:48 16:59 16:63 17:3 17:9 17:16 17:19 17:22 18:3 18:9 18:23 18:25 18:29 18:30 18:32 20:3 20:5 20:27 20:30 20:31 20:33 20:36 20:39 20:40 20:44 20:47 20:49 21:7 21:9 21:13 21:24 21:26 21:28 22:3 22:12 22:19 22:28 22:31 23:22 23:28 23:32 23:34 23:35 23:46 23:49 24:3 24:6 24:9 24:14 24:21 24:24 25:3 25:6 25:8 25:12 25:13 25:14 25:15 25:16 26:3 26:5 26:7 26:14 26:15 26:19 26:21 27:3 28:2 28:6 28:10 28:12 28:22 28:24 28:25 29:3 29:8 29:13 29:16 29:19 29:20 30:2 30:6 30:10 30:13 30:22 31:10 31:15 31:18 32:3 32:8 32:11 32:14 32:16 32:31 32:32 33:11 33:17 33:20 33:25 33:27 34:2 34:8 34:10 34:11 34:15 34:17 34:20 34:30 34:31 35:3 35:6 35:11 35:14 36:2 36:3 36:4 36:5 36:6 36:7 36:13 36:14 36:15 36:22 36:23 36:32 36:33 36:37 37:3 37:5 37:9 37:12 37:19 37:21 38:3 38:10 38:14 38:17 38:18 38:21 39:1 39:5 39:8 39:10 39:13 39:17 39:20 39:25 39:29 43:18 43:19 43:27 44:6 44:9 44:12 44:15 44:27 45:9 45:15 45:18 46:1 46:16 47:13 47:23 48:29
Daniel 9: 1:2 9:3 9:4 9:7 9:9 9:15 9:16 9:17 9:19
Amos 24: 1:8 3:7 3:8 3:11 3:13 4:2 4:5 5:3 5:16 6:8 7:1 7:2 7:4 7:5 7:6 7:7 7:8 8:1 8:3 8:9 8:11 9:1 9:5 9:8
Obadiah 1: 1:1
Micah 1: 1:2
Habakkuk 1: 3:19
Zephaniah 1: 1:7
Zechariah 2: 9:4 9:14
Malachi 2: 1:12 1:14

Hebrew dictionary

אֲדֹנָי adonai · Lord

Lord - a title, spoken in place of Yahweh in Jewish display of reverence Another name of ye.ho.vah (יהוה "LORD" H3068G)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “lord” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

LORD, noun

A master; a person possessing supreme power and authority; a ruler; a governor.
A tyrant; an oppressive ruler.
A husband.“My lord also being old” Genesis 18:12
A baron; the proprietor of a manor; as the lord of the manor.

All definitions and other forms of “lord”

A nobleman; a title of honor in Great Britain given to those who are noble by birth or creation; a peer of the realm, including dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts and barons.
An honorary title bestowed on certain official characters; as lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.
In scripture, the Supreme Being; Jehovah. Psalms 110:1 Colossians 3:16 2 Thessalonians 3:1 Genesis 40:1 2 Samuel 19:7 Daniel 4:19 Genesis 18:1 1 Kings 18:1 2 Kings 2:1 1 Corinthians 2:8 Revelation 19:1

LORD, verb transitive

To invest with the dignity and privileges of a lord

LORD, verb intransitive

To domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; sometimes followed by over, and sometimes by it, in the manner of a transitive verb.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.