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

Found in Scripture

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