ADORAIM ăd’ ə rā’ əm (אֲדﯴרַ֥יִם). One of the fifteen cities fortified by Rehoboam (2 Chron 11:9). It is identified with the modern Dura, in Judah, five m. SW of Hebron. In 1 Maccabees and in Josephus the name appears as Adora or Dora or Dor. At Adora, Simon Maccabeus stopped the Syrian leader Trypho in 142 b.c. (1 Macc 13:20-24). John Hyrcanus captured the city after the death of Antiochus VII in 129 b.c. (Jos. War I. ii. 2). The proconsul of Syria, Gabinius, in 59 b.c., rebuilt the city and made it one of his administrative districts (Jos. War I. xii. 4, 5). In the Book of Jubilees (38:9ff.) Esau was killed by the forces of Jacob at Aduram (Adora), and was buried there.