Adna

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

One of the sons of Pahath-Moab, who, on Ezra's ( Ezra 10:30 ) monition (after that God had by great rains intimated His displeasure), put his strange wife away.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Ezra 10:30 2 Nehemiah 12:15

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

ADNA (‘pleasure’). 1 . A contemporary of Ezra, who married a foreign wife ( Ezra 10:30 ). 2 . The head of the priestly house of Harim ( Nehemiah 12:15 ).

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. One of the sons of Pahath-moab who had married a strange wife. Ezra 10:30 .

2. A priest of the family of Harim. Nehemiah 12:15 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ad'na. (rest, pleasure).

1. One of the family of Pahath-moab, who returned with Ezra and married a foreign wife. Ezra 10:30 . (B.C. 459).

2. A priest, descendant of Harim in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua. Nehemiah 12:15 . (B.C. 500).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ad´na ( עדנא , ‛adhnā ), "pleasure"; Αἰδαινέ , Aidainé ):

(1) An Israelite in Ezra's time who, having married a foreign wife, divorced her. He belonged to Pahath-moab ( Ezra 10:30 ).

(2) A priest of the family of Harum, during the high-priesthood of Joiakim son of Jethua ( Nehemiah 12:12-15 ).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Adna ’ , עִדְנָא , pleasure; Sept. Ε᾿δνέ , but in Nehemiah Μαννάς ) , the name apparently of two men.

1. A chief-priest, son of Harim, and contemporary with Joiakim

( Nehemiah 12:15 ), B.C. cir. 500.

2. An Israelite of the sons (i.e. inhabitants) of Pahath-moab, who divorced the Gentile wife married by him after the captivity ( Ezra 10:30 ), B.C. 459.