הֲדֹם
hădôm · had-ome'
a foot stool
Lexicon
Derivation: from an unused root meaning to stamp upon;
a foot stool
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (foot-) stool.
Letters
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
- 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)
to reveal, behold › the doorway, the way in › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To reveal, behold of the doorway, the way in of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of הֲדֹם 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
6 occurrences · 6 OT · 0 NT · 4 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- at his footstool2 · 33%
- and for the footstool1 · 17%
- thy footstool1 · 17%
- is my footstool1 · 17%
- not his footstool1 · 17%
Where it is used, by book.
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.