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Adah - ornament. (1.) The first of Lamech's two wives, and the mother of Jabal[?] and Jubal[?] (Gen. 4:19, 20, 23).

(2.) The first of Esau's three wives, the daughter of Elon[?] the Hittite (Gen. 36:2,4), called also Bashemath[?] (26:34).

From Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

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