Edomite
Americannoun
noun
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an inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Edom, whose people were hostile to the Israelites in Old Testament times
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the ancient Semitic language of this people, closely related to Hebrew
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By Strabo's time it had come to be known as Idumsea, or the Edomite country; and under this appellation it will perhaps be most convenient to describe it here.
While thus the dead in thy rare pages rise Thine, with thyself, thou dost immortalise, To view the odds thy learned lives invite 'Twixt Eleutherian and Edomite.
From Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
An Edomite of the third generation could enter "into the congregation of the Lord," and we hear of no rival deity in Edom to Yahveh of Israel.
From Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Israel was especially commanded not to abhor an Edomite.
From The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition by Arno C. Gaebelein
In the letter to the Pharaoh, in which mention is made of the hostilities carried on by Edom against the Egyptian territory, one of the Edomite towns referred to is called Khinianabi.
From Patriarchal Palestine by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
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