Psalm 16/Notes/Lexical.v. 3.929757

• The word mighty ones (אַדִּירֵי), which is parallel to "holy ones," is also used to describe divine beings (cf. 1 Sam 4:8; see also the use of the Phoenician adjective אדר to describe gods in KAI 48.2; 58) and perhaps the deified dead in particular (see Spronk 1986, 210–211). There is a fourth-fifth century Phoenician inscription on a sarcophagus discovered in Byblos that warns anyone who would disturb the dead man’s resting place: "The mighty (האדר) Og will avenge me." Og, described here as “mighty” (האדר) was likely thought to be a netherworld deity (cf. Röllig 1974, 6).