What Is Edomite in the Bible?
Person
From Edom, the people descended from Esau, south of the Dead Sea. Herod the Great was an Idumean, from that same land.
A detail
- Another name: Idumean. Esau lived in the mountains of Seir.
Where it appears in the Bible
Genesis 36:1; Genesis 36:8; Genesis 36:9
What the Bible says
Genesis 36:1
And these are the generations of Esau, the same is Edom.
Genesis 36:8
And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: he is Edom.
Genesis 36:9
And these are the generations of Esau the father of Edom in mount Seir,
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Genesis 36:1-8; Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), “Herod”