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Lexicon :: Strong's H120 - 'āḏām

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אָדָם
Transliteration
'āḏām
Pronunciation
aw-dam'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 25a

Strong’s Definitions

אָדַם ʼâdam, aw-dam'; from H119; ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.):—× another, hypocrite, common sort, × low, man (mean, of low degree), person.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 552x

The KJV translates Strong's H120 in the following manner: man (408x), men (121x), Adam (13x), person(s) (8x), common sort (with H7230) (1x), hypocrite (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 552x
The KJV translates Strong's H120 in the following manner: man (408x), men (121x), Adam (13x), person(s) (8x), common sort (with H7230) (1x), hypocrite (1x).

  1. man, mankind

    1. man, human being

    2. man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT)

    3. Adam, first man

    4. city in Jordan valley

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָדַם ʼâdam, aw-dam'; from H119; ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.):—× another, hypocrite, common sort, × low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
STRONGS H120: Abbreviations
אָדָם 560 noun masculine Genesis 1:27 man, mankind (Phoenician אדם, Sabean id., CISiv. 1, l. 4 and others; compare Assyrian admu, young (of bird) DlW, but NöZMG 1886, 722 identification with Arabic اٌَنَام collective creatures) — Singular absolute except construct Proverbs 6:12 compare Thes; (בְּנֵי (הָ)א׳ often = plural of א׳ Genesis 11:5 + 39 times, compare בְּנוֺת הָא׳ Genesis 6:2, 4) —
1. a man (= German Mensch) = human being Genesis 2:5, 7 (twice in verse); Genesis 2:8, 15, 16, 18 +, Genesis 16:12 (27 times J) Leviticus 5:4 || נֶמֶּשׁ Leviticus 13:2, 9 (19 times P) Nehemiah 2:10; Isaiah 13:12 (|| אֱנוֺשׁ); הַגָּדוֺל הָאָ׳ Joshua 14:15 (E); בְּלִיַּעַל אָ׳ Proverbs 6:12 (|| אִישׁ אָוֶן compare 1 Samuel 25:25 & see H1000 בליעל); = any one Leviticus 1:2; Numbers 9:6, 7; Job 20:29; Job 27:13; Proverbs 15:20; Proverbs 21:16, 20; Proverbs 24:30; Ecclesiastes 7:20 + often Wisdom Literature, Jeremiah 2:6; Jeremiah 4:25; Nehemiah 2:12, compare נֶמֶּשׁ א׳ Numbers 19:11, 13 +; seldom man opposed to woman Genesis 2:22 (twice in verse); Genesis 2:23, 25; Genesis 3:8, 12, 17, 20, 21; Ecclesiastes 7:28.
2. collective man, mankind Genesis 1:26; Genesis 9:5, 6 (3 times in verse) + (P + 28 times) Genesis 6:1, 5, 6, 7 (J E + 24 times) Deuteronomy 4:32 (D + 6 times) (on 2 Samuel 7:19 compare 1 Chronicles 17:17 see DrSm); distinctly = men + women Genesis 1:27; Genesis 5:1; Numbers 5:6; given as name Genesis 5:2; but = warriors Isaiah 22:6 רֶכֶב א׳ || (פּרשׁים ); || beasts (41 times) בְּהֵמָה Genesis 6:7; Genesis 7:23 (J ?) Exodus 8:13; Exodus 8:14; Exodus 9:9, 10 (P) Exodus 9:19, 22, 25; Exodus 12:12; Exodus 13:2, 13, 15 (all J) +; late prophets Jeremiah 21:6; Jeremiah 31:27; Jeremiah 50:3; Jeremiah 51:62; Ezekiel 14:13, 17, 19, 21; Ezekiel 25:13; Ezekiel 29:8, 11; Ezekiel 32:13 (strike out Co) Ezekiel 36:11; Jonah 3:8; Zephaniah 1:3; Haggai 1:11; Zechariah 2:8; Zechariah 8:10; || בָּקָר Ezekiel 4:15; || צֹאן, חֲמֹרִים ב׳ Numbers 31:28; || id. + מִכָּל־הַבְּהֵמָה Numbers 31:30 compare Jonah 3:7; || חַיָּה Genesis 9:5 (P) compare Ezekiel 1:5, 8, 10, 26, & description of כְּרוּבִים Ezekiel 10:8, 14, 21; compare Ezekiel 41:19; || trees Deuteronomy 20:19 (read הֶאָדָם see Di); opposed to God 1 Samuel 15:29; 1 Samuel 16:7 (twice in verse); Isaiah 31:3; Ezekiel 28:2, 9; 1 Chronicles 21:13; 1 Chronicles 29:1; 2 Chronicles 6:18; Malachi 3:8 compare Exodus 33:20; Deuteronomy 5:21; so בֶּן־א׳ Numbers 23:19 (|| אישׁ) Ezekiel 2:1, 3, 6, 8 (87 times Ezekiel, always addressed to prophet); בְּנֵי הָא׳ 1 Samuel 26:19; made in God's image Genesis 1:26, 27; Genesis 9:6 compare Ecclesiastes 7:29; as feeble, earthly, mortal Numbers 16:29 (twice in verse); Psalm 82:7; Psalm 144:3; Psalm 144:4; Job 5:7; Job 14:1, 10; compare Job 25:6 (בֶּן־א׳) Ecclesiastes 12:5; as sinful 1 Kings 8:46; 2 Chronicles 6:36; Jeremiah 10:14 compare Numbers 5:6; Job 31:33; Hosea 6:7; of men in general, other men (opposed to particular ones) Judges 16:17 (compare אַחַד הָא׳ Judges 16:7; Judges 16:11) Judges 18:7, 28; Psalm 73:5; Jeremiah 32:20 +; || אִישׁ Isaiah 2:9, 11, 17; Isaiah 5:15 compare Ezekiel 23:42 (strike out Co Vrss); בְּנֵי א׳ 2 Samuel 7:14 (|| אֲנָשִׁים) Proverbs 8:4 (|| אִישִׁים); Psalm 49:3; Psalm 62:10 (both || בְּנֵי אִישׁ) = men of low opposed to men of high degree — so often Phoenician and = vassal Sabean DHMZMG 1875, 680 compare 686; נֶפֶשׁ א׳ collective Numbers 31:35, 40, 46; 1 Chronicles 5:21; Ezekiel 27:13.
†3. proper name, masculine Adam, first man (without article, compare שָׂטָן 1 Chronicles 21:1 over ag. הַשּׂ׳ Job 1:6 etc.) Genesis 4:25 (J) [H121 Genesis 5:1, 3, 4, 5 (P) 1 Chronicles 1:1]. (Genesis 2:20; 1 Chronicles 3:17, 21 read לָא׳ see Di.)
†4. proper name, of a location city in Jordan valley (as built ?) [H121 Joshua 3:16].
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:26; 1:26; 1:27; 1:27; 1:27; 2:5; 2:7; 2:8; 2:15; 2:16; 2:18; 2:20; 2:22; 2:23; 2:25; 3:8; 3:12; 3:17; 3:20; 3:21; 4:25; 5:1; 5:2; 6:1; 6:2; 6:4; 6:5; 6:6; 6:7; 6:7; 7:23; 9:5; 9:5; 9:6; 9:6; 11:5; 16:12

Exodus

8:13; 8:14; 9:9; 9:10; 9:19; 9:22; 9:25; 12:12; 13:2; 13:13; 13:15; 33:20

Leviticus

1:2; 5:4; 13:2; 13:9

Numbers

5:6; 5:6; 9:6; 9:7; 16:29; 19:11; 19:13; 23:19; 31:28; 31:30; 31:35; 31:40; 31:46

Deuteronomy

4:32; 5:21; 20:19

Joshua

14:15

Judges

16:7; 16:11; 16:17; 18:7; 18:28

1 Samuel

15:29; 16:7; 25:25; 26:19

2 Samuel

7:14; 7:19

1 Kings

8:46

1 Chronicles

3:17; 3:21; 5:21; 17:17; 21:1; 21:13; 29:1

2 Chronicles

6:18; 6:36

Nehemiah

2:10; 2:12

Job

1:6; 5:7; 14:1; 14:10; 20:29; 25:6; 27:13; 31:33

Psalms

49:3; 62:10; 73:5; 82:7; 144:3; 144:4

Proverbs

6:12; 6:12; 8:4; 15:20; 21:16; 21:20; 24:30

Ecclesiastes

7:20; 7:28; 7:29; 12:5

Isaiah

2:9; 2:11; 2:17; 5:15; 13:12; 22:6; 31:3

Jeremiah

2:6; 4:25; 10:14; 21:6; 31:27; 32:20; 50:3; 51:62

Ezekiel

1:5; 1:8; 1:10; 1:26; 2:1; 2:3; 2:6; 2:8; 4:15; 10:8; 10:14; 10:21; 14:13; 14:17; 14:19; 14:21; 23:42; 25:13; 27:13; 28:2; 28:9; 29:8; 29:11; 32:13; 36:11; 41:19

Hosea

6:7

Jonah

3:7; 3:8

Zephaniah

1:3

Haggai

1:11

Zechariah

2:8; 8:10

Malachi

3:8

H120

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Strong's Number H120 matches the Hebrew אָדָם ('āḏām),
which occurs 552 times in 526 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 11 (Jdg 18:7–Job 33:17)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:7 - Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking[fn] nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:28 - And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the city and lived in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:29 - And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:7 - But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:32 - And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:9 - And David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Behold, David seeks your harm’?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:29 - If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the LORD your God. And the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:19 - Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the LORD who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the LORD, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:14 - I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:19 - And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord GOD. You have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord GOD!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:3 - The God of Israel has spoken;
the Rock of Israel has said to me:
When one rules justly over men,
ruling in the fear of God,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:14 - Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:31 - For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:38 - whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:39 - then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:46 - “If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - And the man cried against the altar by the word of the LORD and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10 - So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied and the donkeys tied and the tents as they were.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:18 - and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:14 - And he broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:20 - And he sacrificed all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:21 - They carried off their livestock: 50,000 of their camels, 250,000 sheep, 2,000 donkeys, and 100,000 men alive.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:17 - And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God. You have also spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations,[fn] O LORD God!

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:13 - Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:1 - And David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is young and inexperienced, and the work is great, for the palace will not be for man but for the LORD God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:18 - “But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:29 - whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing his own affliction and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:30 - then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:36 - “If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:6 - and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:19 - And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:10 - But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:12 - Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:29 - And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7 - but man is born to trouble
as the sparks fly upward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:20 - If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind?
Why have you made me your mark?
Why have I become a burden to you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:12 - But a stupid man will get understanding
when a wild donkey’s colt is born a man!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:1 - “Man who is born of a woman
is few of days and full of trouble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:10 - But a man dies and is laid low;
man breathes his last, and where is he?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:7 - “Are you the first man who was born?
Or were you brought forth before the hills?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:21 - that he would argue the case of a man with God,
as[fn] a son of man does with his neighbor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:4 - Do you not know this from of old,
since man was placed on earth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:29 - This is the wicked man’s portion from God,
the heritage decreed for him by God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:4 - As for me, is my complaint against man?
Why should I not be impatient?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:33 - The clods of the valley are sweet to him;
all mankind follows after him,
and those who go before him are innumerable.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:6 - how much less man, who is a maggot,
and the son of man, who is a worm!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:13 - “This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:28 - And he said to man,
‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom,
and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:21 - I will not show partiality to any man
or use flattery toward any person.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:17 - that he may turn man aside from his deed
and conceal pride from a man;

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