Adah
Americannoun
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one of the two wives of Lamech.
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the wife of Esau, and the mother of Eliphaz.
Example Sentences
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“We’re three houses away from her home, and we are not going away,” said Adah Crandall, an 18-year-old organizer.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2024
“We will do further assessment when the water entry points have been closed and the puddles are dry,” Adah Sudarsa, head of the local search and rescue office, said in a statement.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2023
The quiet mood in Lagos reflected the overall resignation of many Nigerians, Mr. Adah said.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2023
"I have two of those, just in case one fails," says Ozu Adah, a lean-muscled man with cropped hair who runs this shop in Choba, a university community in the southern state of Rivers.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2023
It’s similar to the way Adah will sometimes turn up knowing some entire, difficult thing like French or the square root of pi when I’d been taking for granted I knew everything she did.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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