Strong H137אֲדֹנִי־בֶ֫זֶק

Adoni-bezek

Definition

From H113 and H966; lord of Bezek;
{Adoni-Bezek} a Canaanitish king: - Adoni-bezek.

Adoni-Bezek = "my lord is Besek"

A man living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Jdg.1.5

Adoni-bezek

Canaanite king captured and mutilated by Judah

Adoni-bezek was a Canaanite king who was defeated by the men of Judah, and had his thumbs and big toes cut off as he had done to seventy other kings.

Strong H137 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.

Judges 1:5
And they found Adoni–bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Judges 1:6
But Adoni–bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Judges 1:7
And Adoni–bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.