H0137 H0137
Adoni-bezek; personal name or title meaning 'lord of Bezek,' a Canaanite king
This Hebrew name designates a Canaanite king defeated by the tribes of Judah and Simeon. The name means 'lord of Bezek,' combining 'Adoni' (my lord) with 'Bezek' (the city name). Judges 1:5-7 narrates the encounter: Israel defeats Adoni-bezek, cuts off his thumbs and big toes, and he confesses that he had done the same to seventy kings. He dies in Jerusalem. Some scholars suggest emending the name to 'Adoni-zedek' (lord of righteousness), linking him to the Jerusalem king in Joshua 10, but the text as it stands presents Adoni-bezek as a distinct ruler whose mutilation of defeated enemies receives poetic justice.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The name translates uniformly: English 'Adoni-Bezek,' Spanish 'Adoni-Bezek,' French 'Adoni-Bezek,' German 'Adoni-Bezek.' Judges 1:5 introduces him as the king encountered at Bezek. Judges 1:6 describes his capture after fleeing battle. Judges 1:7 records his confession that he had mutilated seventy kings—and now receives the same treatment, acknowledging divine retribution: 'As I have done, so God has repaid me.' The account illustrates the measure-for-measure justice theme in Judges. 3×
AR["أَدونيَ-بَزَقَ", "أَدونيَ-بَزَقُ"]·ben["অদোনী-বেষক", "অদোনী-বেষককে"]·DE["Adoni-Bezek"]·EN["Adoni-Bezek"]·FR["Adoni-Bezek"]·heb["אדוני-בזק"]·HI["अदोनी-बेजेक", "अदोनी-बेजेक-को", "अदोनी-बेजेक-ने"]·ID["Adoni-Bezek"]·IT["Adoni-Bezek"]·jav["Adoni-Bèzèk"]·KO["아도니-베섹을", "아도니-베섹이"]·PT["'Adoni-Bezeq"]·RU["Адони-Безек", "Адони-Безека"]·ES["Adoni-Bezek"]·SW["Adoni-Bezeki"]·TR["Adoni-Bezek"]·urd["ادونی-بزق", "ادونی-بزق-نے"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† אֲדֹנִי־בֶ֫זֶק n.pr.m. (or title) king of Can. city Bezek Ju 1:7; without Maqq. v 5, 6.* read prob. א׳־צֶ֫דֶק, v. GFM Ju 1:5.