Strong's Lexicon

H122

H122 — אָדוֹם

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

HebrewadomadjectiveOccurrences: 9TWOT: 26b

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H122
Word:אָדוֹם
Part of Speech:adjective
Etymology:from H119
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:9
Transliteration:adom
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:aw-dome'
Meaning:1. rosy
KJV Renderings:red, ruddy.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB114

אָדֹם adjective red׳ א Isa 63:2; Zech 1:8 + Gen 25:30 (twice in verse), see below; אָדוֺם Song 5:10 feminine אֲדֻמָּה Num 19:2, plural אֲדֻמִּים 2Kgs 3:22 + 2 t.; — ruddy, red, of man Song 5:10 horse Zech 1:8 (twice in verse) (|| שָׂרֹק compare Assyrian DlW 87) Zech 6:2 (|| שָׁחֹר); heifer Num 19:2 water 2Kgs 3:22 (כַּדָּם ׳ א); compare as substantive red, redness on garment Isa 63:2 הָאָדֹם = the (red) lentils Gen 25:30 (twice in verse), but read הָאֱדֹם see below; compare also מַעֲלֶה.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

אדום (ah-dohm’)

Genesis 25:30

KJV: And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.with…: Heb. with that red, with that red pottageEdom: that is Red
EHCC: with that same red (pottage); (marg. with

Numbers 19:2

KJV: This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
EHCC: that they bring thee a red heifer

2 Kings 3:22

KJV: And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:
EHCC: the water on the other side (as) red as

Song of Songs 5:10

KJV: My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.the chiefest: Heb. a standard-bearer
EHCC: My beloved (is) white and ruddy

Isaiah 63:2

KJV: Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
EHCC: Wherefore (are thou ) red ia thine apparel,

Zechariah 1:8

KJV: I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.speckled: or, bay
EHCC: a man riding upon a red horse,

Zechariah 6:2

KJV: In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
EHCC: ם1 the first chariot (were) red horses;
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