What Does Genesis 25:30 Mean in the King James?

And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

Genesis 25:30 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The red food becomes Edom, while the same Hebrew word-family holds the human and the ground beneath the name.

THE MEANING

When your body is faint, the immediate can fill your attention; here hunger, a repeated color, and a name converge in one moment. The Hebrew family behind Edom keeps the human and the ground close to the red food.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

A name is only an arbitrary label; here Edom carries the red of the moment that gives the name.

THE ROOT

אֱדוֹם

ʾĕdōm

GROWS FROM

אדם

ʾ-d-m

The root ⁨אדם⁩ (ʾ-d-m) carries the sense of red or ruddy; its word family also includes terms for the human and the ground.

The verse repeats the red in the food before tying that color to Edom. In the same consonantal family, the human and the ground stay audible, gathering appetite, body, and earth into one name.

ALSO GROWS

adom: Red; ruddy.

אָדֹם

This is the color Esau asks for, and the verse links it directly to the name Edom.

adam: Human; person.

אָדָם

The human name shares the consonantal family, placing the color-name beside humanity.

adamah: Ground; soil.

אֲדָמָה

This branch binds the word-family to the earth from which the human is formed.

THE PATTERN

Scripture lets a name carry the nature, origin, or work bound to the one named.

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:7 · KJVThe verse joins the human to the ground at formation, and the Hebrew word-family keeps that origin audible in the name.

And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Genesis 3:20 · KJVHer name is explained through her relation to all living, so the reason for the name is spoken inside the verse.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Matthew 1:21 · KJVThe name is given alongside its work: he delivers his people from their missing, binding identity and action together.

THE THREAD

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:7 · KJV

Genesis 2:7 joins ⁨אָדָם⁩ (adam, human) to ⁨אֲדָמָה⁩ (adamah, ground; soil), words from the same Hebrew root-family. That makes Edom’s name echo more than a color: its family also holds the human being and the earth from which he is formed.

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