Adadah

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ad'adah. (festival or boundary). One of the cities in the extreme south of Judah, named with Dimonah and Kedesh.  Joshua 15:22.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Adadah (  Joshua 15:22 ). A city of Judah in the Negeb; perhaps a corrupt reading for Ararah, i.e. Aroer of   1 Samuel 30:28 .

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Town in the most southern part of Judah's possessions,  Joshua 15:22 , identified by some with Adadah in the desert S.E. of Beersheba.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A city in S. of Judah ( Joshua 15:22).

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 15:22

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Adadah', עִרְעָדָה, from the Syr., festival, or perhaps, by reduplication, boundary; Sept. Ἀδαδά, v. r. Ἀρουήλ ), a town in the southern part of the tribe of Judah, mentioned between Dimonah and Kedesh ( Joshua 15:22); probably situated in the portion afterward set off to Simeon ( Joshua 19:1-9). It is possibly the village Gadda mentioned by Eusebius and Jerome (Onomast. s.v. Γαδδά ), lying on the eastern border of Daroma, opposite the Dead Sea. But see Gaddah. M. de Saulcy believes that he passed some ruins by this name on his way from the southern end of the Dead Sea to Hebron on the high ground after leaving Wady es-Zoweirah (Narrative, 1, 360, 430).

The English engineers found a ruined town, Adadah, near Tuweirah el- Foka, in the neighborhood indicated by De Saulcy (see Quar. Statement of the "Pal Explor. Fund," Jan. 1875, p. 27).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

a -da´da ( עדעדה , ‛adh‛ādhāh ): A city in the southern part of Judah ( Joshua 15:22 ). The older copies of the Greek text have Arouḗl , but that is not a sufficient reason for identifying the name with the Aroer of  1 Samuel 30:28 . Some scholars adopt the change of text, and identify the site with Ararah , about seven miles Southeast of Beer-sheba. Others identify it with Adadah , eight or nine miles Southeast of Arad.