Adon Notes by Yochanan Zaqantov
Adon (Aleph-Dalet-Nun Sofit) also spelled with the Vav acting as a vowel. Reference number 113 and found on pp. 15-16 in the NEHC, pp. 10-11 BDB. It generally means master and translates as Lord.
Yeshayahu/Isaiah 7:7,
7 thus said my Lord God (adonai Yehovah אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה): It shall not succeed, It shall not come to pass.
14 Assuredly, my Lord (Adonai אֲדֹנָי) will give you a sign of His own accord! Look, the young woman is with child and about to give birth to a son. Let her name him Immanuel.
Bereshit/Genesis 15:2, 8
2 But Abram said, “O Lord God (adonai Yehovah אֲדֹנָי יֱהוִה), what can You give me, seeing that I shall die childless, and the one in charge of my household is Dammesek Eliezer!”
7 Then He said to him, “I am Yehovah who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to assign this land to you as a possession.” 8 And he said, “O Lord God (Adonai Yehovah אֲדֹנָי יֱהוִה), how shall I know that I am to possess it?”
Bereshit/Genesis 18:3,26
1 Yehovah appeared to him by the terebinths of Mamre; he was sitting at the entrance of the tent as the day grew hot. 2 Looking up, he saw three men standing near him. As soon as he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to greet them and, bowing to the ground, 3 he said, “My lords (Adonai אֲדֹנָי), if it please you, do not go on past your servant.
23 Abraham came forward and said, “Will You sweep away the innocent along with the guilty? 24 What if there should be fifty innocent within the city; will You then wipe out the place and not forgive it for the sake of the innocent fifty who are in it? 25 Far be it from You to do such a thing, to bring death upon the innocent as well as the guilty, so that innocent and guilty fare alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?” 26 And Yehovah answered, “If I find within the city of Sodom fifty innocent ones, I will forgive the whole place for their sake.” 27 Abraham spoke up, saying, “Here I venture to speak to my Lord (Adonai אֲדֹנָי), I who am but dust and ashes: 28 What if the fifty innocent should lack five? Will You destroy the whole city for want of the five?” And He answered, “I will not destroy if I find forty-five there.” 29 But he spoke to Him again, and said, “What if forty should be found there?” And He answered, “I will not do it, for the sake of the forty.” 30 And he said, “Let not my Lord (la’donai לַאדֹנָי) be angry if I go on: What if thirty should be found there?” And He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.” 31 And he said, “I venture again to speak to my Lord (adonai אֲדֹנָי): What if twenty should be found there?” And He answered, “I will not destroy, for the sake of the twenty.” 32 And he said, “Let not my Lord (la’donai לַאדֹנָי) be angry if I speak but this last time: What if ten should be found there?” And He answered, “I will not destroy, for the sake of the ten.”
33 When the Lord had finished speaking to Abraham, He departed; and Abraham returned to his place.
Shemot/Exodus 4:10, 13
10 But Moses said to Yehovah, “Please, O Lord (Adonai אֲדֹנָי), I have never been a man of words, either in times past or now that You have spoken to Your servant; I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”
13 But he said, “Please, O Lord (Adonai אֲדֹנָי), make someone else Your agent.” Yehovah became angry with Moses, and He said, “There is your brother Aaron the Levite. He, I know, speaks readily. Even now he is setting out to meet you, and he will be happy to see you.
Shemot/Exodus 5:22
22 Then Moses returned to Yehovah and said, “O Lord (Adonai אֲדֹנָי), why did You bring harm upon this people? Why did You send me?
Shemot/Exodus 15:17
17 You will bring them and plant them in Your own mountain, The place You made to dwell in, Yehovah, The sanctuary, O Lord (adonai אֲדֹנָי), which Your hands established.
Shemot/Exodus 34:9
9 and said, “If I have gained Your favor, O Lord (adonai אֲדֹנָי), pray, let the Lord (adonai אֲדֹנָי) go in our midst, even though this is a stiffnecked people. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your own!”
Bamidbar/Numbers 14:17
17 Therefore, I pray, let my Lord (Adonai אֲדֹנָי)’s forbearance be great, as You have declared, saying, 18 ‘Yehovah! slow to anger and abounding in kindness; forgiving iniquity and transgression; yet not remitting all punishment, but visiting the iniquity of fathers upon children, upon the third and fourth generations.’ 19 Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to Your great kindness, as You have forgiven this people ever since Egypt.”
20 And Yehovah said, “I pardon, as you have asked. 21 Nevertheless, as I live and as Yehovah’s Presence fills the whole world, 22 none of the men who have seen My Presence and the signs that I have performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and who have tried Me these many times and have disobeyed Me, 23 shall see the land that I promised on oath to their fathers; none of those who spurn Me shall see it.
Devarim/Deuteronomy 3:24
23 I pleaded with Yehovah at that time, saying, 24 “O Lord God (Adonai Yehovah אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה), You who let Your servant see the first works of Your greatness and Your mighty hand, You whose powerful deeds no god in heaven or on earth can equal! 25 Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land on the other side of the Jordan, that good hill country, and the Lebanon.”
Devarim /Deuteronomy 9:26
Ba’al (Bet-Ayin-Lamed)
Hosea 2:18
18 And in that day —declares the Lord— You will call [Me] Ishi, And no more will you call Me Ba’ali (בַּעְלִי).