King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H123
Transliteration: edom
Phonetic Spelling: (ed-ome')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: the name of a condiment
Meaning: the name of a condiment
Word Summary
edom: the name of a condiment
Original Word: אֱדֹםTransliteration: edom
Phonetic Spelling: (ed-ome')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: the name of a condiment
Meaning: the name of a condiment
Strong's Concordance
Edom, Edomites, Idumea Or (fully) oedowm {ed-ome'}; from 'adom; red (see Gen. 25:25); Edom, the elder twin-brother of Jacob; hence the region (Idumaea) occupied by him -- Edom, Edomites, Idumea.
see HEBREW 'adom
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H123. edom
אֱדֹם noun [masculine] name of a condiment (Arabic see Anderson in Di; compare Assyrian adumatu ? DlW) ׳הָאֱ Genesis 25:30 (twice in verse) (J; so read for ׳הָאָ MT; see Di).
אֱדוֺם ( אֱדֹם Ezekiel 25:14) proper name, masculine 1. Edom (name of a god ? see StaG. 1, 121 RSSem 43; see n.pr. עבדאדם; but BaeRel 10 thinks dialect variant reading of אדום בני אָדָם, = אָדָם בְנֵי) = Esau, elderson of Isaac Genesis 25:30 (J) (where etymology = red, compare 25:25 (E ?) & below אַדְמוֺנִי 36:1, 8, 19 (P). 2 collective (masculine but feminine Malachi 1:4) Edomites, Idumeans as descendants of Esau Genesis 36:9, 43 (P); also 1 Samuel 14:47 31t. + 2 Samuel 8:13 (for ארם ᵑ0; ᵑ6 ᵐ5 see 1 Chronicles 18:12; Psalm 60:2, We Dr); perhaps also 60:12 (ᵑ6 ᵐ5 1 Chronicles 18:11; ארם ᵑ0 but see We Dr); also 2 Chronicles 20:2 (see Berthau); ׳א = king of Edom Numbers 20:18, 20, 21; in poetry א ׳בְּנֵי Psalm 137:7 א ׳בַּת Lamentations 4:21-22, 3 land of Edom, Idumaea (f. Ezekiel 32:29; 35:15; and 36:5) south & southeast of Palestine Genesis 36:32, 43 32t. (including ׳א שְׂדֵה 32:4; א ׳אֶרֶץ 36:16-17, 21, 31; Numbers 20:23; 21:4; 33:37 +); — uncertain weather 2 or 3 are Exodus 15:15; Numbers 20:14; 24:18 9t. (chiefly in א ׳מֶלֶח etc.) **See now FBuhlGeschichte. d. Edomiter (1893).