אָדֹם
ʼâdôm · aw-dome'
rosy
Lexicon
Derivation: from H119 (אָדַם);
rosy
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: red, ruddy.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › the doorway, the way in › water, chaos, the mighty deep
Strength, the leader of the doorway, the way in of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אָדֹם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
9 occurrences · 9 OT · 0 NT · 9 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- that same1 · 11%
- red1 · 11%
- thee a red1 · 11%
- as red1 · 11%
- and ruddy1 · 11%
- wherefore art thou red1 · 11%
- upon a red1 · 11%
- him were there red1 · 11%
- were red1 · 11%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.