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Esau vs Edomite - What's the difference?

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esau

English

(wikipedia Esau)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • The son of Isaac and Rebekah and the older twin brother of Jacob.
  • * 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 25:27
    • And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

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    * Edom

    edomite

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biblical) A person descended from Esau (Edom).
  • * 1611 — 36:9
    • And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A Canaanite Semitic language spoken by the Edomites in southwestern Jordan in the first millennium BCE, extinct from the 6th century BCE.