Lexical Summary Adlay: the father of Shaphat Original Word: עַדְלַיTransliteration: Adlay Phonetic Spelling: (ad-lah'-ee) Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Short Definition: the father of Shaphat Meaning: Adlai -- the father of Shaphat Strong's Concordance Adlai Probably from an unused root of uncertain meaning; Adlai, an Israelite -- Adlai. Brown-Driver-Briggs H5724. Adlay עַדְלָ֑י proper name, masculine 1 Chronicles 27:29, ᵐ5. Αδαι, ᵐ5L Αδλι. II. עדל (√ of foll.; compare Arabic turn aside, whence עֲדֻלָּם = retreat, refuge, so Lag BN 54, compare DrSm. p. 293 BhulGeogr. 97). |