Addi

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ad'di. (ornament) Luke 3:28. Son of Cosam, and father of Melchi in our Lord's genealogy; the third above Salathiel.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(Luke 3:28). In Jesus' genealogy. A shortened form of Adiel, or Adaiah, from adi , "ornament."

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Descendant of Cosam in the genealogy of the Lord Jesus. Luke 3:28 . The name cannot be traced in the Old Testament.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

ADDI . An ancestor of Jesus, Luke 3:28 .

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

ADDI. —An ancestor of Jesus Christ, Luke 3:28.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Luke 3:28

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Luke 3:28

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Ἀδδί, probably for Heb. Adi’, עֲרַי, ornament, as in Exodus 33:4, etc.), the name of one or two men.

1. An Israelite, several of whose descendants on returning from Babylon, married heathen women (1 Esdras 9:31); for which the parallel text (Ezra 10:30) has more correctly PAHATH-MOAB (See Pahath- Moab) (q.v.).

2. The son of Cosam and father of Melchi (i.e. probably Maaseiah, 2 Chronicles 34:8) in the maternal ancestry of Christ (Luke 3:28). B.C. ante 623.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ad´ı̄ ( Ἀδδί , Addı́  ; Ἀδδεί , Addeı́ ): An ancestor of Joseph, the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus; fourth from Zerubbabel in the ascending genealogical series (Luke 3:28 ).