pleasure; delight
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
ADNA (pleasure).1. A contemporary of Ezra, who married a foreign wife (Ezr_10:30). 2. The head of the priestly house of Harim (Neh_12:15).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
One of the sons of Pahath-Moab, who, on Ezra's (Ezr_10:30) monition (after that God had by great rains intimated His displeasure), put his strange wife away.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ad'na. (rest, pleasure).
1. One of the family of Pahath-moab, who returned with Ezra and married a foreign wife. Ezr_10:30. (B.C. 459).
2. A priest, descendant of Harim in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua. Neh_12:15. (B.C. 500).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ad?na (עדנא, ‛adhnā), ?pleasure?; Αἰδαινέ, Aidainé):
(1) An Israelite in Ezra's time who, having married a foreign wife, divorced her. He belonged to Pahath-moab (Ezr_10:30).
(2) A priest of the family of Harum, during the high-priesthood of Joiakim son of Jethua (Neh_12:12-15).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Adna
(Heb. Adna, עִדְנָא, pleasure; Sept. Ε᾿δνέ, but in Nehemiah Μαννάς), the name apparently of two men.
1. A chief-priest, son of Harim, and contemporary with Joiakim
(Neh_12:15), B.C. cir. 500.
2. An Israelite of the sons (i.e. inhabitants) of Pahath-moab, who divorced the Gentile wife married by him after the captivity (Ezr_10:30), B.C. 459.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.