Edomite
אֲדֹמִיStrong’s H0130edomi (e-do-mi)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Edomi is the Hebrew word usually translated “edomite” and “edomites”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.”
Meaning
- Someone from Edom, an Edomite
How it's translated
- the edomite 6
- edomite 2
- edomites 2
- an edomite 1
- and edomites 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 4
- 1 Kings 3
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Psalms 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 21:7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
- 1 Samuel 22:9Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
- 1 Samuel 22:18And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
- 1 Samuel 22:22And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father’s house.
- 1 Kings 11:1But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
- 1 Kings 11:14And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king’s seed in Edom.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲדֹמִי edomi · Edomite
Someone from Edom, an Edomite Group of e.dom (אֱדוֹם "Edom" H0123)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.