הֲדֹםhădôm
stool, footstool, never literal, usually of ׳ י (Psalms 110:1; Lamentations 2:1; Isaiah 66:1; Isaiah 60:13; Psalms 99:5)
Pronunciation: had-ome' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1916
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 28:2 David rose to his feet and said: “My brothers and my people! It was my desire to build a Temple where the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant, God’s footstool, could rest permanently. I made the necessary preparations for building it,
- Psalms 99:5 Exalt the Lord our God! Bow low before his feet, for he is holy!
- Psalms 110:1 The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit in the place of honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies, making them a footstool under your feet.”
- Psalms 132:7 Let us go to the sanctuary of the Lord; let us worship at the footstool of his throne.
- Isaiah 66:1 This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Could you build me a temple as good as that? Could you build me such a resting place?
- Lamentations 2:1 The Lord in his anger has cast a dark shadow over beautiful Jerusalem. The fairest of Israel’s cities lies in the dust, thrown down from the heights of heaven. In his day of great anger, the Lord has shown no mercy even to his Temple.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).