אַדֶּרֶת f. (b. h.; אָדַר) 1) cloak, cover. Gen. R. s. 63 (ref. to Gen. XXV, 25) כולו ראוי לא׳ every one (of the Roman people) fit for the purple cloak (may become an emperor). —2) (homiletically, as if אִדֶּרֶת = ch. אִדְּרָא, אִדַּר) the threshing floor, the store of grains. Ib. כולו מפוזר ומפורד כא׳ entirely destined to be scattered (winnowed) like the grains, לזרותו וכ׳ [שעתיד] for the Lord will scatter him (Edom-Rome) like chaff &c. (ref. to Dan. II, 35).
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אַדֶּרֶת f. (b. h.; אָדַר ) 1) cloak, cover . Gen. R. s. 63 (ref. to Gen. XXV, 25 ) כולו ראוי לא׳ every one (of the Roman people) fit for the purple…
References
- Jastrow, אָדַר 1
- Bereishit Rabbah 63
- Genesis 25:25
- Jastrow, אַדֶּרֶת 1
- Jastrow, אִדַּר 1
- Daniel 2:35