Adida
Smith's Bible Dictionary [1]
Ad'ida. A fortified town near Jerusalem, probably the Hadid of Ezra 2:33 and referred to in 1 Maccabees 12:38.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
Adida . A town in the Shephelah (Jos. [Note: Josephus.] Ant . XIII. vi. 5) fortified by Simon the Hasmonæan ( 1Ma 12:38; 1Ma 13:13 ). See Hadid.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
( Ἀδιδά , Josephus also Τὰ Σαδιδα or Σαδδιδα , probably of Hebrew origin; Vulg. Addus), a fortified town in the tribe of Judah ( 1 Maccabees 12:38), which Simon Maccabaeus set up "in Sephela" ( Ἐν Τῇ Σεφήλᾷ ) , and made it strong with bolts and bars. Eusebius (Onomast. s.v.) says that Sephela was the name given in his time to the open country about Eleutheropolis (see Reland, Paloest. p. 187). This Adida is probably the "Adida over against the plain," where Simon Maccabaeus encamped to dispute the entrance into Judaea of Tryphon, who had treacherously seized on Jonathan at Ptolemais ( 1 Maccabees 13:13). Josephus (Ant. 13, 6, 4) adds that this Adida was upon a hill, before which lay the plains of Judaea. It is scarcely (see Reland, Paloest. p. 546) the same as Adithaim ( Joshua 15:36), but may be the ancient Adatha ( Ἀδαθά of Eusebius, Onomast. s.v. Ἀδιαθαϊ v Ν ) and the modern Eddis (Schwarz, Palest. p. 102), near Gaza. (See Adithaim). It was apparently here that Aretas defeated Alexander (Josephus, Ant. 13, 15, 2). Lightfoot, however, contrives to multiply the place mentioned in the Maccabees and Josephus into four or five different towns (see Chorog. Decad. § 3). Another place of the name of Adida, mentioned by Josephus (War, 4, 9, 1) as having been garrisoned by Vespasian, is thought by Cellarius (Geogr. Ant. p. 338) to have been near Jericho; but Reland (Paloest. p. 546) argues that it was precisely in the opposite direction from Jerusalem, perhaps identical with the HADID (See Hadid) (q.v.) of Ezra 2:32.
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature [4]
Ad´ida, a fortified town in the tribe of Judah. In 1 Maccabees 12:38, we read that Simon Maccabaeus set up 'Adida in Saphela, and made it strong with bolts and bars.' Eusebius says that Sephela was the name given in his time to the open country about Eleutheropolis. And this Adida in Sephela is probably the same which is mentioned in the next chapter ( 1 Maccabees 13:13) as 'Adida over against the plain,' where Simon Maccabaeus encamped to dispute the entrance into Judea of Tryphon, who had treacherously seized on Jonathan at Ptolemais. In the parallel passage Josephus (Antiq. xiii. 6, 5) adds that this Adida was upon a hill, before which lay the plains of Judea. One of the places which Josephus calls Adida (Bell. Jud. iv. 9, 1) appears to have been near the Jordan, and was probably the Hadid of Ezra 2:33.
