Edom אדום

Kingdom in the highlands south of the Dead Sea, in present-day southern Jordan and the Negev, linked in the Bible with Esau. Its copper mines at Timna and Faynan fed regional trade. Edom fought Judah repeatedly and fell to Babylon. Its people, later called Idumeans, were brought into the Jewish people under John Hyrcanus in the second century BCE, and Herod the Great came from an Idumean family.