Lexicon
אָדֹם
a.dom
H0122A
H:A Hebrew

red

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Hebrew
Language

a.dom describes a visible red coloration of water, clothing, animals, a person, and horses in the supplied verses.

The attested use describes visible red coloration across several kinds of referents: water, garments, a heifer, a beloved, and horses. The same adjectival use is shown with masculine singular, masculine plural, and feminine singular forms, without clear evidence here for separate lexical senses.

Senses in use

  1. Visible red coloration · dominant

    The adjective marks the color of water in 2 Kings 3:22, where the APB renders the water as “red as blood”; it also describes clothing in Isaiah 63:2, a heifer in Numbers 19:2, and the beloved in Song of Songs 5:10. In Zechariah 1:8 and Zechariah 6:2, it modifies horses, with the APB rendering them “red.”

In the Anselm Paraphrase: The APB presents the color directly as “red” for clothing, a heifer, and horses, and as “red as blood” for water; for the beloved it uses “ruddy.” Because the paraphrase is not word-aligned, these renderings confirm the verse contexts rather than establish separate meanings.

Across Scripture