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# אָדֹם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H122

**red** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

red [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/122/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָדֹם²: adj. red [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/122/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. red—א׳ Is 63:2 Zc 1:8 + Gn 25:30(×2), v. infr.; אָדוֹם Ct 5:10; f. אֲדֻמָּה Nu 19:2, pl. אֲדֻמִּים 2 K 3:22 + 2 textual;—ruddy, red, of man Ct 5:10; horse Zc 1:8(×2) (‖ שָׂרֹק cf. As.DlW 87 6:2 (‖ שָׁחֹר); heifer Nu 19:2; water 2 K 3:22 (א׳ כַּדָּם); cf. as subst. red, redness on garment Is 63:2; הָאָדֹם = the (red) lentils Gn 25:30(×2), but rd. הָאֱדֹם v. infr.; cf. also מַעֲלֶה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: red (5); \[stew\] (2); \[does\] redness (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 5:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.10/#tree)

דּוֹדִ֥י צַח֙ וְאָד֔וֹם דָּג֖וּל מֵרְבָבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* lover my \[is\].dazzling and ruddy \[he.is\].conspicuous more than.ten.thousand

*JPS 1917:* 'My beloved is white and ruddy, pre-eminent above ten thousand.

[Isaiah 63:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.2/#tree)

מַדּ֥וּעַ אָדֹ֖ם לִלְבוּשֶׁ֑ךָ וּבְגָדֶ֖יךָ כְּדֹרֵ֥ךְ בְּגַֽת׃

*Word for word:* why? \[does\].redness \[belong\].to clothing your and.\[are\] garments? your like \[one.who\].treads in a.winepress

*JPS 1917:* 'Wherefore is Thine apparel red, and Thy garments like his that treadeth in the winevat?' —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/122.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/122/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).