adom · red

What it means

adom (אָדֹם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “red”.

Reddish.

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. The color of blood, like Esau's stew or wine.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• red ×8
• ruddy ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Numbers×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Zechariah×3

• Genesis 25:30

  Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me gulp down some of the red, this red stuff, for I am exhausted.” That is why his name was called Edom.

• Numbers 19:2

  “This is the statute of the instruction that YHWH has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel, that they bring you a red cow whole, on which there is no defect, and on which a yoke has never come.

• 2 Kings 3:22

  They rose early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and Moab saw the water across from them red as blood.

• Song of Songs 5:10

  My beloved is radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.

• Isaiah 63:2

  Why is your apparel red, and your garments like those of one who treads in the winepress?

• Zechariah 1:8

  I saw in the night, and look, a man riding on a red horse, and he was standing among the myrtles that were in the hollow; and behind him were horses, red, sorrel, and white.

• Zechariah 6:2

  With the first chariot, red horses; and with the second chariot, black horses;

And 2 more times.