הֲדֹם
hadom · footstool
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1916 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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hadom (הֲדֹם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “footstool”.
A low stool on which the feet of someone seated rest. The Bible uses it as an image: the ark, the temple, or the earth is God's "footstool," that is, the place where his throne touches the earth.
How to say it
ha·dom
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
- A stool for the feet; an image of God's place.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- 1 Chronicles 28:2
King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of YHWH and for the footstool of the feet of our Elohim, and I made preparations to build it.
- Psalms 99:5
Exalt YHWH our Elohim, and bow down at the footstool of his feet; holy is he.
- Psalms 110:1
Of David. A psalm. YHWH declares to my lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”
- Psalms 132:7
Let us go into his dwellings; let us bow down at the footstool of his feet.
- Isaiah 66:1
Thus says YHWH: “The heavens are my throne, and the earth the footstool of my feet. Where is this house that you would build for me, and where is this place of my rest?
- Lamentations 2:1
How Adonai in his anger covers with a cloud the daughter of Zion! He has thrown down from the heavens to the earth the beauty of Israel, and has not remembered the footstool of his feet in the day of his anger.