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To redden

אָדֹםStrong’s H0119

adam (a-dam)

Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Adam is the Hebrew word usually translated “dyed red”, “that was dyed red” and “it will be red”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.

“And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,”
Exodus 25:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. To be red, red(Qal) ruddy (of Nazarites) · (Pual) · (Hiphil) · (Hithpael)
How it's translated
  • dyed red 6
  • that was dyed red 1
  • it will be red 1
  • they are red 1
  • they were red 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Exodus 6
  • Proverbs 1
  • Isaiah 1
  • Lamentations 1
  • Nahum 1

5 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

אָדֹם adam · to redden

1) to be red, red 1a) (Qal) ruddy (of Nazarites) 1b) (Pual) 1b1) to be rubbed red 1b2) dyed red 1b3) reddened 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to show red 1c2) to glare 1c3) to emit (show) redness 1d) (Hithpael) 1d1) to redden 1d2) to grow red 1d3) to look red

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “redden” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

REDDEN, verb transitive

red'n. [from red.] To make red.

    All definitions and other forms of “redden”

      REDDEN, verb intransitive

      red'n.

      1. To grow or become red.
      2. To blush.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.