Adalard (Or Adelard) a monk, was born about 753, and was the son of Count Bernard and cousin-german of Charlemagne. Invited to court, and fearing the infection of such a life, he, at the age of twenty, became a monk of Corbie, in Picardy, and was at length chosen abbot of the monastery. Forced by … Continue reading “Adalard (Or Adelard)”
Adaiah
Adaiah (Heb. Adayah’, , adorned by Jehovah, once in the prolonged form Adaya’hu, . 2Ch 23:1), the name of several men. 1. (Sept. v v. r. v) The son of Ethni and father of Zerah. of the Levitical family of Gershom, in the ancestry of Asaph (1Ch 6:40); apparently the same with IDDO SEE IDDO … Continue reading “Adaiah”
Adah
Adah (Heb. Adah’, , ornament; Sept. ), the name of two women. 1. The first named of the two wives of the Cainite Lamech, and mother of Jabal and Jubal (Gen 4:19-20; Gen 4:23). B.C. cir. 3600. 2. The first of the three wives of Esau, being the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and the … Continue reading “Adah”
Adadrimmon
Adadrimmon a-dad-rimon: Shorter and less accurate name of a place in the Valley of Megiddo, which tradition connected with the death of King Josiah (Zec 12:11; 2Ch 35:22). See HADADRIMMON. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Adadah
Adadah (Heb. Adadah’, , from the Syr., festival, or perhaps, by reduplication, boundary; Sept. , v. r. ), a town in the southern part of the tribe of Judah, mentioned between Dimonah and Kedesh (Jos 15:22); probably situated in the portion afterward set off to Simeon (Jos 19:1-9). It is possibly the village Gadda mentioned … Continue reading “Adadah”
Adad-Rimmon
Adad-Rimmon Adad-Rimmon, properly Hadad-Rimmon (A garden of pomegranates), a city in the valley of Jezreel, where was fought the famous battle between King Josiah and Pharaoh-Necho (2Ki 23:29; Zec 12:11). Adad-rimmon was afterwards called Maximianopolis, in honor of the emperor Maximian. It was seventeen Roman miles from Caesarea, and ten miles from Jezreel. Fuente: Popular … Continue reading “Adad-Rimmon”
Adad
Adad the Graecized form of the name of the idol Hadad (Josephus, Ant. 8, 5, 2); also a less correct form of the name of King Hadad (1Ki 11:17, original). SEE HADAD. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Adad Adad is the name of the chief deity of the Syrians, the sun. The … Continue reading “Adad”
Adab
Adab is an Arabic term for whatever Mohammed has done once or twice, which is on that account lawful to be done by any of his followers. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Ada
Ada was a Syrian goddess of the moon, the same with Mylitta. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Ad Universalis Ecclesiae
Ad Universalis Ecclesiae A papal constitution dealing with the conditions for admission to religious orders of men in which solemn vows are prescribed. It was issued by Pius IX, 7 February, 1862. This Pope had issued from time to time various decrees: e.g. “Romani Pontifices” (25 January, 1848), “Regulari Disciplinae” (for Italy and adjacent isles, … Continue reading “Ad Universalis Ecclesiae”