King James Bible Dictionary

Jah has adorned; {Adajah} the name of eight Israelites

Adaiah = "Jehovah has adorned Himself"

1. maternal grandfather of king Josiah of Judah and native of Boscath in the lowlands of Judah

2. a Gershonite Levite and ancestor of Asaph

3. a Benjamite, son of Shimhi

4. a priest, son of Jehoram

5. ancestor of Maaseiah, one of the captains who supported Jehoiada

6. a descendant of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

7. a descendant of another Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

8. a descendant of Pharez of the tribe of Judah