Adrammelech

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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).
     



From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Adrammelech, the cloak, glory, grandeur or power of the king