Edom
e'-dum, e'-dum-its 'edhom, "red"; Edom):
1. Boundaries:
The boundaries of Edom may be traced with some approach to
accuracy. On the East of the `Arabah the northern border ran
from the Dead Sea, and was marked by Wady el-Kurachi, or
Wady el-Chasa. On the East it marched with the desert. The
southern border ran by Elath and Ezion-geber (Dt...
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(Signifies red)
-1. A name of Esau, possibly on account of his being covered
with red hair
Ge 25:25,30; 36:1,8,19
-2. A name of the land occupied by the descendants of Esau
It extended from the Elanitic Gulf to the Red Sea, and
was
also called IDUMEA
Ge 32:3; 36:16,17,21; Jer 40:11
Noted for its wise men
Ob 1:8
Sins of
Ob 1:10-14
Proph...
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(red). The name Edom was given to Esau, the first-born son
of Isaac and twin brother of Jacob, when he sold his
birthright to the latter for a meal of lentil pottage. The
country which the Lord subsequently gave to Esau was hence
called "the country of Edom," Ge 32:3 and his descendants
were called Edomites. Edom was called Mount Seir and Idum...
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(1.) The name of Esau (q.v.), Gen. 25:30, "Feed me, I pray
thee,
with that same red pottage [Heb. haadom, haadom,
i.e., 'the red
pottage, the red pottage'] ...Therefore was his name
called
Edom", i.e., Red.
(2.) Idumea (Isa. 34:5, 6; Ezek. 35:15). "The field
of Edom"
(Gen. 32:3), "the land of Edom" (Gen. 36:16), was
mountainous
(Obad. 1:...
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Idumea. ("red".) Esau's surname, the firstborn of Isaac;
Jacob's twin brother, who sold his birthright for the red
pottage (of yellow brown lentils, dashim; the cooking of
which is still seen in Egyptian representations), from
whence came his surname (Genesis 25:29-34). The name was
appropriate to Edom's possession, "mount Seir," the
mountain...
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Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the
land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side
of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon,
but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon [was] the
border of Moab....
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And these [are] the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath,
duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these [are] the dukes
[that came] of Reuel in the land of Edom; these [are] the sons
of Bashemath Esau's wife....
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Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.> O God, thou hast
cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been
displeased; O turn thyself to us again....
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Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted
thee up: glory [of this], and tarry at home: for why shouldest
thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldest fall, [even]
thou, and Judah with thee?...
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