Ἰδουμαῖοι - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἰδουμαῖοι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

people

Ἰδουμαῖοι, ἔθνος Ἑβραίων, ἀπὸ ἀδώμου (ἄδωμα γὰρ οἱ Ἑβραῖοι τὸ ἐρυθρὸν καλοῦσιν), ὅτι ξανθὸν βρῶμα δοὺς αὐτῷ ὁ ἀδελφὸς τὰ πρωτεῖα εἰλήφει.

Idoumaioi: a people of the Hebrews, named after Adomos (for the Hebrews call red 'adoma'), because his brother had received the birthright by giving him tawny food.

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#26
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 326.15
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-12
Word count	22
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἰδουμαῖοι	Idumaeans · people
Ἑβραῖοι	Hebrews · people
Ἄδωμος	Adom (Edom) · person
Ἰδουμαῖοι	place · explicit · wikidata: Q497958 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Folk Etymology Narrative	The Idumaeans are a Hebrew nation, named from Edom (for the Hebrews call the color red ʼadom), because his brother, having given him yellowish/red food, had obtained the birthright.
Borrowing Non Greek	For the Hebrews call the color red ʼadom.

Links

Place links	Idumea \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_299.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.133

char LCS 101 (91.8%) · word LCS 21 (95.5%)

Stephanos

Ἰδουμαῖοι, ἔθνος Ἑβραίων, ἀπὸ ἀδώμου (ἄδωμα γὰρ οἱ Ἑβραῖοι τὸ ἐρυθρὸν καλοῦσιν), ὅτι ξανθὸν βρῶμα δοὺς αὐτῷ ὁ ἀδελφὸς τὰ πρωτεῖα εἰλήφει.

Herodian

…ι, εἰ μὴ διαστολὴ γένοιτο κυρίου ἢ εἴη σύνθετον, πυγμαῖος καὶ Πυγμαῖος, υἱὸς Δώρου τοῦ Ἐπάφου, ἀφ´ οὗ Πυγμαῖοι ἔθνος, δρομαῖος, ἀκμαῖος, ἰμαῖος ἡ ἐπιμύλιος ᾠδή. δηλοῖ δὲ καὶ ὄνομα κύριον. ἐρημαῖος. Πτολεμαῖος. Ἰδουμαῖος ἔθνος Ἑβραίων ἀπὸ ἀδώμου (ἄδωμα γὰρ οἱ Ἑβραῖοι τὸ ἐρυθρὸν καλοῦσιν), ὅτι ξανθὸν βρῶμα δοὺς αὐτῷ ὁ ἀδελφὸς τὰ πρωτεῖα εἰλήφει. Ῥωμαῖος, Δαλμαῖος ἔθνος παρὰ τοῖς Ἰχθυοφάγοις, ὡς Ἀπολλόδωρος. Ἑρμαῖος, ὅθεν τὸ Ἑρμαῖον κάρα παρὰ Σοφοκλεῖ. τὸ δὲ Ἕρμαιος κύριον πρὸς ἀντιδιαστολὴν προπαροξύνεται καὶ τὸ «ὅθι θ´ Ἕρμαιος λόφος ἐστίν» (Od. π 471) καὶ τὸ …