How to Pronounce Adrammelech
AH-druh-MEH-leck
Adrammelech is pronounced AH-druh-MEH-leck (əˈdræməˌlɛk): four syllables, stress on the first and third. Also heard: uh-DRAM-uh-lek.
What does Adrammelech mean?
Adrammelech means “the cloak, glory, grandeur or power of the king”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
Who was Adrammelech?
Adar the king. (1.) An idol; a form of the sun-god worshipped by the inhabitants of Sepharvaim (2 Kings 17:31), and brought by the Sepharvite colonists into Samaria. (2.) A son of Sennacherib, king of Assyria (2 Kings 19:37; Isa. 37:38).
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.
Also pronounced
uh-DRAM-uh-lek
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