Adoraim

Adora´im, a town in the south of Judah, enumerated along with Hebron and Mareshah, as one of the cities fortified by Rehoboam (2Ch 11:9). This town does not occur in any writer after Josephus, until the recent researches of Dr. Robinson, who discovered it under the name of Dura, the first feeble letter having been dropped. It is situated five miles W. by S. from Hebron, and is a large village, seated on the eastern slope of a cultivated hill, with olive-groves and fields of grain all around. There are no ruins.

A town in the south of Judah, fortified by Rehoboam, 2Ch 11:9 . Robinson has identified it with the modern Dura, a large village five miles west by south from Hebron.\par

Adora’im. (double mound). A fortified city built by Rehoboam, 2Ch 11:9, in Judah. Adoraim is probably the same place with Adora, 1Ma 13:20, unless that be Dor, on the seacoast below Carmel. Robinson identifies it with Dura, a "large village" on a rising ground west of Hebron.

A fortress built by Rehoboam in Judah (2Ch 11:9). Probably now Dura, a large village on a rising ground W. of Hebron.

(Heb. Adora’yim, אֲוֹרִיַם, two mounds or dwellings; Sept. Α᾿δωραϊvμ v. r. Α᾿δωραί), a town, doubtless in the south-west of Judah, since it is enumerated along with Hebron and Mareshah as one of the cities fortified by Rehoboam (2Ch 11:9). Under the name of Adora it is apparently mentioned in the Apocrypha (ςΑδωρα, 1Ma 13:20), and also often by Josephus (ςΑδωρα or Δῶρα, Ant. 8:10, 1; 13:6, 5; 15, 4; War, 1, 2, 6; 8, 4), who usually connects it with Maressa, as cities of the later Idumaea (see Reland, Paloest. p. 547). It was captured by Hyrcanus at the same time with Maressa, and rebuilt by Gabinius (Joseph. Ant. 13, 9, 1; 14:5, 3). Dr. Robinson discovered the site under the name of Dura, a large village without ruins, five miles W. by S. from Hebron, on the eastern slope of a cultivated hill, with olive-groves and fields of grain all around (Researches, 3, 2-5; comp. Schwarz, Palest. p. 113).

[Adora’im]

Fortified city built by Rehoboam. 2Ch 11:9. It is identified with Dura , a large village which lies to the west of Hebron, 31° 31’ N, 35° 1’ E.

By: Gerson B. Levi

Fortified city built by Rehoboam in Judah; now called Dura (II Chron. xi. 9 et seq.).

ADORAIM (2Ch 11:9).—A city of Judah fortified by Rehoboam on the S.W. of his mountain kingdom; now Dûra, a small village at the edge of the mountains W. of Hebron.

ad-o-rā´im (אדורים, ’ădhōrayim, “a pair of knolls,” perhaps): One of several cities in Judah that were fortified by Rehoboam (2Ch 11:9). The name appears in Josephus and in 1 Macc as Adora or Dora or Dor. Its location is indicated in general by that of the other cities which the record in Chronicles groups with it. Common consent identifies it with Dura, about five miles West by South of Hebron.