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Strong's #4573 - מַעַדְיָה
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Maadiah = “adorned of JAH”
1) one of the priests who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
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מֹעֵד see מוֺעֵד below יעד.
[מַעֲדָן], מַעֲדַנִּים see עדן.
מַעַדְיָה (for מַעַדְיָהּ “ornament of Jehovah”), [Maadiah], pr.n. m. Nehemiah 12:5 for which there is מוֹעַדְיָה (“festival of Jehovah”), verse 17 Nehemiah 12:17. The two places will perfectly accord, if the first be read מֹעַדְיָה.
I. מַעֲדָן only in plur. מַ821ע֫֒דַנִּים, מַעֲדָנִים Jeremiah 51:34 [In Thes. this reference is removed to עֵדֶן; The form actually occurring in the passage is מֵֽעֲדָנָי֑]; and מַעֲדַנּוֹת 1 Samuel 15:32 (from the root עָדַן).
(1) delight, joy, Proverbs 29:17. Adv. with joy, joyfully, cheerfully, 1 Samuel 15:32.
(2) delicate food, dainties, Genesis 49:20; Lamentations 4:5.
II. מַעֲדַנּוֹת m. bonds; by transposition of the letters for מַעֲנַדּוֹת, from the root עָנַד to bind. Job 38:31, מַעֲדַנּוֹת כִּימָה “the bands of the Pleiades;” see כִּימָה.
