ADIABENE (5.-dr-a-be'ne), (Gr:A6capivi,ak-dee a-bay-nay'), the principal of the six provinces into which Assyria was divided. Pliny (His!. Nat. v:t2) and Ammianus (xxiii:6, sec. 2o) com prehend the whole of Assyria under this name, which, however, properly denoted only the prey. ince which was watered by the rivers Diab and Adiab, or the Great and Little Zab (Dhab), which flow into the Tigris below Nineveh (Mosul) from the northeast. This region is not mentioned in Scripture, but in Josephus, its queen Helena and her son lzates, who became converts to Judaism, are very often named (Joseph. Antic/. xx:2, 4; Bell. Jud. ii:i6, 19; v;4, 6, it).
ADIDA (5.d'i-d5.), (Gr. 'AStbd,ah-a'ee-dah', Vulg. Addus), a fortified town in the tribe of Judah. In 1 Mace. xii:38, we read that Simon Maccabmus set up "A dia'a in Sefikela" ('.1.54f3i lv rij Meq57)XcE), and made it strong with bolts and bars. Eusebius
says that Sephela was the name given in his time to the open country about Eleutheropolis. And this Adida in Sephela is probably the same which is mentioned in the next chapter (1 Macc. xiii :13) as 'Adida over against the plain,' where Simon Maccabxus encamped to dispute the entrance into Judma of Tryphon, who had treacherously seized on Jonathan at Ptolemais. In the parallel passage Josephus (Autiq. xiii :6, 4) adds that this Adida was upon a hill, before which lay the plains of Jud2ea. however, contrives to multiply the single place mentioned in the Maccabees and Josephus into four or five different towns (see Chorog. Decad. sec. 3). One of the places which Josephus calls Adida (Bell. Ind. iv :9, 1) appears to have been near the Jordan, and was probably the Hadid of Ezra ii :33. (See HADID.)