Bible Dictionaries
Adino
Holman Bible Dictionary
(uh di' noh) Personal name meaning, “loving luxury.” Chief of David's captains who slew 800 men at one time (2 Samuel 23:8 ). Name does not appear in Septuagint, earliest Greek translation of this passage, nor in the Hebrew text of the parallel passage in 1 Chronicles 11:11 . Some modern translators omit it from 2 Samuel 23:8 (NIV, RSV, TEV).
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Bibliography Information
Butler, Trent C. Editor. Entry for 'Adino'. Holman Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hbd/a/adino.html. 1991.