A'din (Heb. Adin', עָדַין, effeminate, as in Isa 47:8; Sept. Α᾿δίν, Α᾿δδίν, ᾿Ηδίν, ᾿Ηδείν), the head of one of the Israelitish families, of which a large number (454, according to Ezr 2:15, but 655, according to Ne 7:20 — the discrepancy being occasioned by an error in the hundreds, and the including or excluding of himself) returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (B.C. 536) and fifty more (with Ebed the son of Jonathan) under Ezra (B.C. 459, Ezr 8:6). He appears to have been the same with one of those who subscribed the religious covenant with Nehemiah (Ne 10:16, B.C. cir. 410). His name occurs in the parallel passages of the Apocrypha (Α᾿δινού, 1 Esdras 5:14; Α᾿δίν, 1 Esdras 8:32).
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More