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Strong's #5720 - עָדִין
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Adin = “dainty” or “delicate”
1) ancestor of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel
2) a chief among the returned exiles who signed the covenant with Nehemiah
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2 a chief Nehemiah 10:17, ᵐ5. Ηδ(ε)ιν, Αδειν.
עָדִין adj. soft, delicate, Isaiah 47:8. The words are very difficult, and perhaps corrupted in 2 Samuel 23:8, הוּא עֲדִינוֹ הָעֶצְנוֹ (כתיב) for which the author of the Chronicles, 1 Chronicles 11:11, has given, הוּא עוֹרֵר אֶת חֲנִיתוֹ “he lifted up his spear.” Vulg. renders them ipse est quasi tenerrimus ligni vermiculus. Jo. Simonis, percussio ejus hastâ suâ (fuit) in octigentos etc.; comparing عدن Conj. II. to smite with a pointed weapon, see below עֵצֶן. I prefer rendering עָדִין by vibration (das Schwingen, Schwenken der Lanze); from the root עָדַן to be soft, pliant (fchwank).
(2) [Adin] pr.n. m. Ezra 2:15; Nehemiah 7:20.
