(Ἀδδί, probably for Heb. Adi’, עֲרַי, ornament, as in Exodus 33:4, etc.), the name of one or two men.
1. An Israelite, several of whose descendants on returning from Babylon, married heathen women (1 Esdras 9:31); for which the parallel text (Ezra 10:30) has more correctly PAHATH-MOAB (See PAHATH- MOAB) (q.v.).
2. The son of Cosam and father of Melchi (i.e. probably Maaseiah, 2 Chronicles 34:8) in the maternal ancestry of Christ (Luke 3:28). B.C. ante 623.