Lexical meanings of adon and adoni

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They could refer to humans or God.

Strong's Hebrew: 113. אָדוֹן (adon) — 325 Occurrences

Brown-Driver-Briggs:

  1. singular lord, master (1) reference to men: (a) superintendent of household
  2. plural lords, kings
  3. 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
  4. אֲדֹנָי יהוה (a) my Lord Yahweh
  5. יהוה אֲדֹנָי Yahweh my Lord
  6. אֲדֹנָי יהוה צְבָאוֺת (a) my Lord Yahweh
See also The LORD says to my lord