Edomite

English

Etymology

Edom +‎ -ite

Proper noun

Edomite (plural Edomites)

1. (biblical) A person descended from Esau (Edom)
2. A Canaanite Semitic language spoken by the Edomites in southwestern Jordan in the first millennium BCE, extinct from the 6th century BCE.

Quotations

• 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 36:9

  And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir.

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