Bible Names

Adummim: meaning of the name

Adummim means “earthy; red; bloody things.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Adummim in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Adummim

Adummim in Scripture

“Adummim” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 15:7

    And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of En–shemesh, and the goings out thereof were at En–rogel:

  • Joshua 18:17

    And was drawn from the north, and went forth to En–shemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,