Red
אָדֹםStrong’s H0122adom (a-dom)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Adom is the Hebrew word usually translated “red”, “ruddy” and “redness”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Red, ruddy (of man, horse, heifer, garment, water, lentils)
- Name of a condiment
How it's translated
- red 5
- the red 2
- and ruddy 1
- redness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Zechariah 2
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Song of Solomon 1
- Isaiah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 6:2In contextIn the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
- Genesis 25:30And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
- Numbers 19:2This 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:
- 2 Kings 3:22And 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:
- Song of Solomon 5:10My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
- Isaiah 63:2Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
Hebrew dictionary
אָדֹם adom · red
red, ruddy (of man, horse, heifer, garment, water, lentils)
אֱדֹם edom · red stuff
name of a condiment
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “red” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RED, adjective
[Gr red and a rose, from its color. Heb. to descend, to bring down. Latin gradior, also to correct, to teach, erudio.]
All definitions and other forms of “red”
RED, noun
A red color; as a brighter color, the best of all the reds.
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.