Adonikam
adonikam
whom the Lord sets up, one of those “which came with Zerubbabel” (Ezra 2:13). His “children,” or retainers, to the number of 666, came up to Jerusalem (8:13).
Historical Examples
Yet are there those among them who shame not such high descent, and of such shall be the daughter of Isaac the son of adonikam!
Ivanhoe Walter Scott
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