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# אַדְמֹנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H132

**red** — used 3 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/1488/132/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַדְמוֹנִי: adj. red, ruddy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/132/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. red, ruddy, of Esau as newborn babe Gn 25:25 (whence name Edom acco. to E? cf. Di); of youth 1 S 16:12; 17:42 (אַדְמֹנִי).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 25:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.25/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵ֤א הָרִאשׁוֹן֙ אַדְמוֹנִ֔י כֻּלּ֖וֹ כְּאַדֶּ֣רֶת שֵׂעָ֑ר וַיִּקְרְא֥וּ שְׁמ֖וֹ עֵשָֽׂו׃

*Word for word:* and he.came.out the first red of.him all \[was\].like a.cloak of.hair and they.called name his Esau

*JPS 1917:* And the first came forth ruddy, all over like a hairy mantle; and they called his name Esau.

[1 Samuel 17:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.42/#tree)

וַיַּבֵּ֧ט הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֛י וַיִּרְאֶ֥ה אֶת־דָּוִ֖ד וַיִּבְזֵ֑הוּ כִּֽי־הָיָ֣ה נַ֔עַר וְאַדְמֹנִ֖י עִם־יְפֵ֥ה מַרְאֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.looked the Philistine and he.saw (et) David and he despised.him (dm) he.was a.youth and red with handsome of.appearance

*JPS 1917:* And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal of a fair countenance.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/132.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/132/): 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).