Edom

Via Late Latin Edōm from Koine Greek Ἐδώμ (Edṓm) from Biblical Hebrew אֱדוֹם (ʾĔḏōm).

The medieval Jewish use of "Edom" to refer to Christians referred to their view of Christianity as a heresy that originated from Judaism, comparing Christians to Esau as a relative who was hostile to Jacob (who represented the Jewish people). It originated from Jewish writings that compared the Roman authorities to Edom for their persecution of Jewish people, which was later applied to Christianity when the latter became the state religion of the Roman Empire.^[1]

• enPR: ēʹdəm, IPA^(key): /ˈi.dəm/
• Rhymes: -iːdəm
• Hyphenation: E‧dom

Edom

1. (biblical) The name given to Esau in the Hebrew Bible.
2. (historical) A region whose inhabitants, the Edomites, traditionally traced their ancestry to Esau.
3. (Judaism, historical, chiefly derogatory, collective) Rome, the Roman Empire.
4. (Judaism, historical, chiefly derogatory, collective) Christianity; Christendom, the Christian countries.

• (Esau): Esau

• Edomite

• Hindudom (Hindu world)
• Christendom (Christian world)
• Dar al-Islam (the Muslim world)
• Jewry, Klal Yisrael (collective terms for Jewish people)

• “Edom”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Dome, E.D. Mo., Medo-, demo, demo-, dome, mode

From Middle Dutch edom, from Biblical Hebrew אֱדוֹם.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.dɔm/
• Hyphenation: Edom

Edom n

1. Edom (land and region in the southern Levant and northern Arabia)

• Edomiet

Edom m

1. Edom, Esau

Via Koine Greek Ἐδώμ (Edṓm) from Biblical Hebrew אֱדוֹם (ʾĔḏōm).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛ.dõː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.dom]

Edōm m (indeclinable) (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)

1. (biblical) Edom, Esau:
   1. a male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Edom; a sobriquet of Esau in the Hebrew Bible

      Synonyms: Ēsāū, Ēsāus

      • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.36.1:

        Hae sunt autem generationes Esau, ipse est Edom

        And these are the generations of Esau, the same is Edom

   2. the tribe or nation which is said to be descended from Edom; Edomites

      Synonyms: Idūmaea, Idūmē, Idūmēa

• Idūmaea, Idūmēa
• Idūmē
• Idūmaeus

• → English: Edom

• “Edom”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Edom”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Edom

1. a male given name, variant of Aidam

• “Edom”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.