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Lexicon :: Strong's H127 - 'ăḏāmâ

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אֲדָמָה
Transliteration
'ăḏāmâ
Pronunciation
ad-aw-maw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 25b

Strong’s Definitions

אֲדָמָה ʼădâmâh, ad-aw-maw'; from H119; soil (from its general redness):—country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 225x

The KJV translates Strong's H127 in the following manner: land(s) (125x), earth (53x), ground (43x), country (1x), husbandman (2x), husbandry (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 225x
The KJV translates Strong's H127 in the following manner: land(s) (125x), earth (53x), ground (43x), country (1x), husbandman (2x), husbandry (1x).
  1. ground, land

    1. ground (as general, tilled, yielding sustenance)

    2. piece of ground, a specific plot of land

    3. earth substance (for building or constructing)

    4. ground as earth's visible surface

    5. land, territory, country

    6. whole inhabited earth

    7. city in Naphtali

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲדָמָה ʼădâmâh, ad-aw-maw'; from H119; soil (from its general redness):—country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
STRONGS H127: Abbreviations
אֲדָמָה 224 noun feminine ground, land (as tilled, German bebaut ? DlPr 105, but Fleisch. (MerxArchiv 1, 236 f) compare Arabic ادَهَة, skin, as smoothly covering & close-fitting; √ דם compare Arabic دَمَّ smear (spread over surface); compare also NöZMG 1886, 737) — א׳ Genesis 1:25 +; construct אַדְמַת Genesis 47:20 +; suffix אַדְמָתִי Job 31:38 + 2 times etc.; plural אֲדָמוֺת Psalm 49:12
1. ground (as tilled, yielding sustenance) Genesis 2:5, 9; Genesis 3:17, 23; Genesis 4:2, 3, 12; Genesis 5:29; Genesis 8:21; Genesis 19:25; Genesis 47:23; Exodus 34:26 (all J); Exodus 23:19 (E) Deuteronomy 7:13; Deuteronomy 11:17; Deuteronomy 26:2, 10, 15; Deuteronomy 28:4, 11, 18, 33, 42, 51; Deuteronomy 30:9; 2 Samuel 9:10; Isaiah 1:7; Isaiah 28:24; Isaiah 30:23 (twice in verse); Isaiah 30:24; Jeremiah 7:20; Jeremiah 14:4; Jeremiah 25:33; Haggai 1:11; Malachi 3:11; Psalm 83:11; Psalm 105:35; Proverbs 12:11; Proverbs 28:19; 1 Chronicles 27:26; Nehemiah 10:36; Nehemiah 10:38 compare figurative Job 5:6 (|| עפר); personified Job 31:38; Joel 1:10; also אִישׁ הָא׳ Genesis 9:20 (J) tiller, husbandman; meton. אֹהֵב א׳ 2 Chronicles 26:10 i.e. lover of husbandry (or do these point to earlier meaning tillage ? compare DlPr 105) אִישׁ עֹבֵד א׳ Zechariah 13:5.
†2. piece of ground, landed property Genesis 47:18, 19 (3 times in verse); Genesis 47:20, 22 (twice in verse); Genesis 47:23, 26 (all J) Psalm 49:12 (plural)
†3. earth as material substance; of which man is made Genesis 2:7 (עָפָד מִן־הָא׳); so animals Genesis 2:19 (מִן־הָא׳); altar Exodus 20:24; earthen vessels חַרְשֵׂי א׳ Isaiah 45:9; on head, sign of woe 1 Samuel 4:12; 2 Samuel 1:2; 2 Samuel 15:32; of contrition Nehemiah 9:1 (compare אֵפֶר, עָפָר; מַעֲבֵה הָא׳ 1 Kings 7:46 compare 2 Chronicles 4:17 (firmness of earth, firm earth, clay-ground, for casting-moulds; or clay-moulds (Berthau) ? or is this n.pr. ? Klo proposes בַּמְּעָרָה הָאֲדֻמָּה in the red cave); mule-loads of 2 Kings 5:17; in it lie the dead מִיְּשֵׁנֵי אַדְמַתעָֿפָר Daniel 12:2 compare Genesis 3:19, 23; Psalm 146:4.
4. ground as earth's visible surface; רֶמֶס הָא׳ Genesis 1:25; Genesis 6:20 (both P) Hosea 2:20 compare Genesis 7:8; Genesis 9:2 (J ?) Leviticus 20:25 (P) Deuteronomy 4:18; Ezekiel 38:20; also Genesis 4:10 (J) Isaiah 24:21; Amos 3:5; Zephaniah 1:2, 3; as wet with dew 2 Samuel 17:12; rain 1 Kings 17:14; 1 Kings 18:1; compare personified אֶת־פִּיהָ הָא'פָּֽצְתָה Numbers 16:30 (P) (|| ארץ Numbers 16:32), see Numbers 16:31; of particular place, spot קֹדֶשׁ א׳ Exodus 3:5 especially as abode of man Genesis 4:11; Exodus 10:6; Deuteronomy 4:10, 40; Deuteronomy 12:1; 1 Samuel 20:31; 2 Samuel 14:7; often הָא'פְּנֵי Genesis 2:6; Genesis 4:14; Genesis 6:1, 7; Genesis 7:4, 23; Genesis 8:8, 13; Exodus 32:12; Exodus 33:16; Numbers 12:3; Deuteronomy 6:15; Deuteronomy 7:6 (all J, D) 1 Samuel 20:15 + 9 times
5. land, territory, country (= ארץ) Genesis 47:19 (J) Leviticus 20:24 (J ? — || ארץ) construct before proper name מִצְרַיִם א׳ Genesis 47:20, 26; יְהוּדָה א׳ Isaiah 19:17; יִשְׂרָאֵל א׳ Ezekiel 11:17 + 16 times Ezekiel; especially of land as promised or given by י׳ to his people = Canaan Genesis 28:15; Exodus 20:12; Numbers 11:12; Numbers 32:11 (all J ?) Deuteronomy 5:16 + 16 times Deuteronomy, Joshua; 1 Kings 8:34, 40 +; Jeremiah 16:15; Jeremiah 24:10; Jeremiah 25:5; Jeremiah 35:15; Ezekiel 28:25; 2 Chronicles 6:25, 31; 7:20; 33:8; compare also Deuteronomy 12:19; Deuteronomy 21:23; Deuteronomy 29:27; 2 Kings 17:23; Isaiah 6:11; Isaiah 7:16; Isaiah 14:1 +, Ezekiel 34:13, 27 +, Nehemiah 9:25; (שְׁמֵנָה א׳), — in all with + 41 times; + Joel 2:21 (personified); הַקֹּדֶשׁ א׳ Zechariah 2:16 (compare below 4 above); hence also as Yahweh's land Deuteronomy 32:43; Isaiah 14:2; Zechariah 9:16; 2 Chronicles 7:20.
†6. whole earth, inhabited earth (seldom; compare also מְּנֵי הָא׳ below 4 above) Genesis 12:3; Genesis 28:14 (both J compare אֶרֶץ Genesis 18:18; Genesis 22:18; Genesis 26:4) Deuteronomy 14:2; Amos 3:2; Isaiah 24:21.
†7. proper name, of a location city in Naphtali (as built compare אָדָם 4 ? = ed-Dâme ?) west of L. Gennes. Joshua 19:36 see Di.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:25; 1:25; 2:5; 2:6; 2:7; 2:9; 2:19; 3:17; 3:19; 3:23; 3:23; 4:2; 4:3; 4:10; 4:11; 4:12; 4:14; 5:29; 6:1; 6:7; 6:20; 7:4; 7:8; 7:23; 8:8; 8:13; 8:21; 9:2; 9:20; 12:3; 18:18; 19:25; 22:18; 26:4; 28:14; 28:15; 47:18; 47:19; 47:19; 47:20; 47:20; 47:20; 47:22; 47:23; 47:23; 47:26; 47:26

Exodus

3:5; 10:6; 20:12; 20:24; 23:19; 32:12; 33:16; 34:26

Leviticus

20:24; 20:25

Numbers

11:12; 12:3; 16:30; 16:31; 16:32; 32:11

Deuteronomy

4:10; 4:18; 4:40; 5:16; 6:15; 7:6; 7:13; 11:17; 12:1; 12:19; 14:2; 21:23; 26:2; 26:10; 26:15; 28:4; 28:11; 28:18; 28:33; 28:42; 28:51; 29:27; 30:9; 32:43

Joshua

19:36

1 Samuel

4:12; 20:15; 20:31

2 Samuel

1:2; 9:10; 14:7; 15:32; 17:12

1 Kings

7:46; 8:34; 8:40; 17:14; 18:1

2 Kings

5:17; 17:23

1 Chronicles

27:26

2 Chronicles

4:17; 6:25; 6:31; 7:20; 7:20; 26:10; 33:8

Nehemiah

9:1; 9:25; 10:36; 10:38

Job

5:6; 31:38; 31:38

Psalms

49:12; 49:12; 83:11; 105:35; 146:4

Proverbs

12:11; 28:19

Isaiah

1:7; 6:11; 7:16; 14:1; 14:2; 19:17; 24:21; 24:21; 28:24; 30:23; 30:24; 45:9

Jeremiah

7:20; 14:4; 16:15; 24:10; 25:5; 25:33; 35:15

Ezekiel

11:17; 28:25; 34:13; 34:27; 38:20

Daniel

12:2

Hosea

2:20

Joel

1:10; 2:21

Amos

3:2; 3:5

Zephaniah

1:2; 1:3

Haggai

1:11

Zechariah

9:16; 13:5

Malachi

3:11

H127

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H127 matches the Hebrew אֲדָמָה ('ăḏāmâ),
which occurs 225 times in 211 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 1:25–Num 12:3)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:25 - So God made the wild animals of the earth according to their kind, and the cattle according to their kind, and everything that creeps and crawls on the earth according to its kind; and God saw that it was good (pleasing, useful) and He affirmed and sustained it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - no shrub or plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to [fn]cultivate the ground,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:6 - but a [fn]mist (fog, dew, vapor) used to rise from the land and water the entire surface of the ground—
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7 - then the LORD God [fn]formed [that is, created the body of] man from the [fn]dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being [an individual complete in body and spirit].
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9 - And [in that garden] the LORD God caused to grow from the ground every tree that is desirable and pleasing to the sight and good (suitable, pleasant) for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the [experiential] knowledge (recognition) of [the difference between] good and evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:19 - So the LORD God formed out of the ground every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 -

Then to Adam the LORD God said, “Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’;

The ground is [now] under a curse because of you;

In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it

All the days of your life.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:19 -

“By the sweat of your face

You will eat bread

Until you return to the ground,

For from it you were taken;

For you are dust,

And to dust you shall return.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23 - therefore the LORD God sent Adam away from the Garden of Eden, to till and cultivate the ground from which he was taken.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:2 - And [later] she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept the flocks [of sheep and goats], but Cain cultivated the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:3 - And in the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:10 - The LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s [innocent] blood is crying out to Me from the ground [for justice].
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:11 - “And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s [shed] blood from your hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:12 - “When you cultivate the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength [it will resist producing good crops] for you; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond [roaming aimlessly] on the earth [in perpetual exile without a home, a degraded outcast].”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:14 - “Behold, You have driven me out this day from the face of the land; and from Your face (presence) I will be hidden, and I will be a fugitive and an [aimless] vagabond on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:29 - He named him Noah, saying, “This one shall bring us rest and comfort from our work and from the [dreadful] toil of our hands because of the ground which the LORD cursed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:1 -

Now it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:7 - So the LORD said, “I will destroy (annihilate) mankind whom I have created from the surface of the earth—not only man, but the animals and the crawling things and the birds of the air—because it [deeply] grieves Me [to see mankind’s sin] and I regret that I have made them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:20 - “Of fowls and birds according to their kind, of animals according to their kind, of every crawling thing of the ground according to its kind—two of every kind shall come to you to keep them alive.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4 - “For in seven days I am going to cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy (blot out, wipe away) every living thing that I have made from the surface of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:8 - Of [fn]clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and fowls and everything that crawls on the ground,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:23 - God destroyed (blotted out, wiped away) every living thing that was on the surface of the earth; man and animals and the crawling things and the birds of the heavens were destroyed from the land. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:8 - Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the water level had fallen below the surface of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 -

Now in the six hundred and first year [of Noah’s life], on the first day of the first month, the waters were drying up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and the surface of the ground was drying.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma [a soothing, satisfying scent] and the LORD said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intent (strong inclination, desire) of man’s heart is wicked from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:2 - “The fear and the terror of you shall be [instinctive] in every animal of the land and in every bird of the air; and together with everything that moves on the ground, and with all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:20 -

And Noah began to farm and cultivate the ground and he planted a vineyard.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:3 -

And I will bless (do good for, benefit) those who bless you,

And I will curse [that is, subject to My wrath and judgment] the one who curses (despises, dishonors, has contempt for) you.

And in you all the families (nations) of the earth will be blessed.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - and He overthrew (demolished, ended) those cities, and the entire valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and whatever grew on the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - “Your descendants shall be as [countless as] the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and the east and the north and the south; and all the families (nations) of the earth shall be blessed through you and your [fn]descendants.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:15 - “Behold, I am with you and will keep [careful watch over you and guard] you wherever you may go, and I will bring you back to this [promised] land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:18 - When that year was ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord [the fact] that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of livestock; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19 - “Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed [to plant], that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 -

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for every Egyptian sold his field because the famine was severe upon them. So the land became Pharaoh’s.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22 - Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they lived on the amount which Pharaoh gave them, so they did not sell their land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23 - Then Joseph said to the people, “Look, today I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh; now, here is seed for you, and you shall plant the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:26 - And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt—valid to this [fn]day—that Pharaoh should have the fifth part [of the crops]; only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:5 - Then God said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet [out of respect], because the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:21 - “For if you do not let My people go, hear this: I will send swarms of [bloodsucking] insects on you and on your servants and on your people and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of insects, as well as the ground on which they stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:6 - your houses and those of all your servants and of all the Egyptians shall be filled with locusts, as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from their birth until this day.’” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:12 -

“Honor (respect, obey, care for) your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged in the land the LORD your God gives you.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:24 - ‘You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause My Name to be recorded and remembered [through revelation of My divine nature] I will come to you and bless you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 -

“You shall bring the choice first fruits of your ground into the house of the LORD your God.

“You shall not [fn]boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - “Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil [intent] their God brought them out to kill them in the mountains and destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn away from Your burning anger and change Your mind about harming Your people.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:16 - “For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we are distinguished, Your people and I, from all the [other] people on the face of the earth?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26 -

“You shall bring the very first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of the LORD your God.

“You shall not [fn]boil a young goat in his mother’s milk [as some pagans do].”

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:24 - ‘But I have said to you, “You are to inherit and take possession of their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land [of plenty] [fn]flowing with milk and honey.” I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples (pagan nations).
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - ‘You are therefore to make a distinction between the [ceremonially] clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by animal or by bird or by anything that crawls on the ground, which I have set apart from you as unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12 - “Was it I who conceived all these people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your [fn]arms as a nurse carries the nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers’?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:3 - ([fn]Now the man Moses was very humble (gentle, kind, devoid of self-righteousness), more than any man who was on the face of the earth.)

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