Bible Person

Adaiah

Meaning: the witness of the Lord · Male · 1 cross reference

This Adaiah entry refers to a post-exilic member of the community named in Ezra's marriage-reform list, not to the royal or Benjaminite figures of the same name. He belongs to the difficult moral reckoning of the restored community. First appears in Ezra 10:39.1

AI summary: This Adaiah matters because his single cross reference places him among those named in Ezra's effort to address unlawful marriages after the exile. The entry shows how restoration involved painful personal repentance as well as public rebuilding. Taken together, the material presents this Adaiah as one of the individuals caught up in post-exilic covenant correction.1

Central Figure

Adaiah

Meaning: the witness of the Lord