Jordan vs Edomite - What's the difference?
jordan | edomite |
A country in the Middle East. Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
A river of the Middle East, mentioned in the Bible, that empties into the Dead Sea, and after which the country is named.
; in the Middle Ages given to children baptized with Jordan water brought by Crusaders.
* 1989 (Jeanette Winterson), Sexing the Cherry , Grove Press 1998, ISBN 0802135781, pages 3-4:
derived from the male given name.
used since mid-20th century.
(biblical) A person descended from Esau (Edom).
* 1611 — 36:9
A Canaanite Semitic language spoken by the Edomites in southwestern Jordan in the first millennium BCE, extinct from the 6th century BCE.
As proper nouns the difference between jordan and edomite
is that jordan is a country in the Middle East. Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan while Edomite is a Canaanite Semitic language spoken by the Edomites in southwestern Jordan in the first millennium BCE, extinct from the 6th century BCE.As nouns the difference between jordan and edomite
is that jordan is a pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists while Edomite is a person descended from Esau (Edom).jordan
English
(wikipedia Jordan)Proper noun
(s)- I call him Jordan and it will do. He has no other name before or after. What was there to call him, fished as he was from the stinking Thames? A child can't be called Thames, no and not Nile either, for all his likeness to Moses. But I wanted to given him a river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren't bound to anything.
Derived terms
* Jordanian * Jordanesque *Jordanianism *JordaniannessSee also
* English unisex given names ----edomite
English
Noun
(en noun)- And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir.