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Adah

Also called Bashemath

Father: Elon

Married to: Esau

Children: Eliphaz

Several people in the Bible have this name. The verses below may mix them up.

Mentioned in 6 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.

Where Adah is mentioned

  • Genesis 26:34

    When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

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  • Genesis 36:2–5

    2 Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

    3 and Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.

    4 And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel,

    5 and Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

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  • Genesis 36:10–12

    10 These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz son of Esau’s wife Adah, and Reuel son of Esau’s wife Basemath.

    11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.

    12 Additionally, Timna, a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, gave birth to Amalek. These are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.

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  • Genesis 36:16

    Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. They are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom, and they are the grandsons of Adah.

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