Adrammelech
Bible Usage:
- Adrammelech used 3 times.
- First Reference: 2 Kings 17:31
- Last Reference: Isaiah 37:38
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: Yes
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: Yes
- Included in Websters: No
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H152 Used 3 times
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Adrammelech
Adar the king.
1. An idol; a form of the sun-god worshipped by the inhabitants of Sepharvaim (2 Kings 17:31), and brought by the Sepharvite colonists into Samaria.
2. A son of Sennacherib, king of Assyria (2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38).
Hitchcock's Names Dictionary
Adrammelech
the cloak, glory, grandeur or power of the king
Naves Topical Index
Adrammelech
1. An Assyrian idol
2 Kings 17:31
2. Son of Sennacherib
2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38
Smith's Bible Dictionary
Adrammelech
(splendor of the king).
- The name of an idol introduced into Samaria by the colonists from Sepharvaim. (2 Kings 17:31) He was worshipped with rites resembling those of Molech, children being burnt in his honor. Adrammelech was probably the male power of the sun, and ANAMMELECH, who is mentioned with Adrammelech as a companion god, the female power of the sun.
- Son of the Assyrian king Sennacherib, who, with his brother Sharezer, murdered their father in the temple of Nisroch at Nineveh, after the failure of the Assyrian attack on Jerusalem. The parricides escaped into Armenia. (2 Kings 19:37; 2 Chronicles 32:21; Isaiah 37:38)