(1) A frontier town in the South of Chanaan (Numbers 34:4; Joshua 15:3). It has not been identified.
(2) King of Edom, Genesis 36:39, called Adad (R.V., Hadad), 1 Chronicles 1:50.
(3) The twelfth month of the Jewish year, corresponding approximately to the latter half of February and the first half of March.
(4) A Chaldean god. The name is found in the compound word Adramelech (Adar is King) in 2 Kings 17:31.