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ADAH
(Aʹdah) [ornament].
1. The first of Lamech’s two living wives. She was the mother of Jabal and Jubal, the founders of nomadic herdsmen and musicians respectively.—Gen. 4:19-23.
2. A Canaanite daughter of Elon the Hittite, and one of Esau’s wives. As such she was “a source of bitterness of spirit to Isaac and Rebekah.” Her son’s name was Eliphaz, the father of Amalek. She may be the one called Basemath in Genesis 26:34.—Gen. 26:35; 36:2, 4, 10, 12.
