edomi · Edomite

What it means

edomi (אֱדֹמִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Edomite”.

A descendant of Edom, that is, of Esau, Jacob's brother.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone from the people of Edom.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Edomite ×9
• Edomites ×3

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Psalms×1

• Deuteronomy 23:7

  You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a resident alien in his land.

• 1 Samuel 21:7

  Now there was a man of the servants of Saul on that day, detained before YHWH; his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of the shepherds who belonged to Saul.

• 1 Samuel 22:9

  Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech son of Ahitub.

• 1 Samuel 22:18

  The king said to Doeg, “You turn and fall upon the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he put to death on that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

• 1 Samuel 22:22

  David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have caused the death of every person of your father’s house.

• 1 Kings 11:1

  And King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

• 1 Kings 11:14

  And YHWH raised up an opponent to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the offspring of the king in Edom.

• 1 Kings 11:17

  Adad fled, he and some Edomite men of his father’s servants with him, to go to Egypt; Hadad was a little boy.

• 2 Kings 16:6

  At that time Rezin king of Aram brought back Elath to Aram and drove out the Jews from Elath; and the Edomites came to Elath and have lived there to this day.

• 2 Chronicles 25:14

  And it happened, after Amaziah came from striking the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the sons of Seir, and set them up for himself as gods; and before them he would bow down, and to them he would burn incense.

• 2 Chronicles 28:17

  Again the Edomites had come and struck Judah and carried away captives.

• Psalms 52:1

  For the director. A maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, mighty man? The loyal love of El is all the day.