They could refer to humans or God.
Strong's Hebrew: 113. אָדוֹן (adon) — 325 Occurrences
Brown-Driver-Briggs:
Strong's Hebrew: 113. אָדוֹן (adon) — 325 Occurrences
Brown-Driver-Briggs:
- singular lord, master (1) reference to men: (a) superintendent of household
- plural lords, kings
- suffix 1 singular (אֲדֹנַי) a. my Lord b. Adonay proper name of God, parallel with Yahweh, substitution for it often by scribal error, & eventually supplanting it
- אֲדֹנָי יהוה (a) my Lord Yahweh
- יהוה אֲדֹנָי Yahweh my Lord
- אֲדֹנָי יהוה צְבָאוֺת (a) my Lord Yahweh