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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 2 / 5 (Num 16:30–1Ki 8:34)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:30 - “But if Yahweh creates an entirely new thing and the ground H127 opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they go down to Sheol alive, then you will know that these men have spurned Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:31 -

And it happened that as he finished speaking all these words, the ground H127 that was under them split open;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:11 - ‘None of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land H127 which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; for they did not follow Me fully,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:10 - “Remember the day you stood before Yahweh your God at Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me, that I may cause them to hear My words so they may learn to [fn]fear Me all the days they live on the earth H127, and that they may teach their children.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:18 - the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground H127, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:40 - “So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am commanding you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days on the land H127 which Yahweh your God is giving you for all the days.”

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‘Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you on the land H127 which Yahweh your God gives you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:15 - for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God—lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and He destroy you from the face of the earth H127.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:6 - “For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for His [fn]own treasured possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the [fn]earth H127.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:13 - “And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground H127, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, [fn]in the land H127 which He swore to your fathers to give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:9 - so that you may prolong your days on the land H127 which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - and the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the ground H127 will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which Yahweh is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:21 - so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land H127 which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as [fn]long as the heavens remain above the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:1 -

“These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall be careful to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days you live on the [fn]earth H127.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:19 - “Beware lest you forsake the Levite all your days upon your land H127.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:2 - “For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for His [fn]treasured possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth H127.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:1 -

“If a slain person is found fallen in the open country in the land H127 which Yahweh your God gives you to [fn]possess, and it is not known who has struck him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (because cursed of God is he who is hanged), so that you do not make unclean your land H127 which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:15 - “You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just [fn]measure, that your days may be prolonged in the [fn]land H127 which Yahweh your God gives you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2 - that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground H127 which you bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where Yahweh your God chooses for His name to dwell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:10 - ‘So now behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground H127 which You, O Yahweh, have given me.’ And you shall set it down before Yahweh your God and worship before Yahweh your God;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:15 - ‘Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the ground H127 which You have given to us, a land flowing with milk and honey, as You swore to our fathers.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:4 -

“Blessed shall be the [fn]offspring of your [fn]body and the [fn]produce of your ground H127 and the [fn]offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11 - “And Yahweh will make you abound in prosperity, in the [fn]offspring of your [fn]body and in the [fn]offspring of your beast and in the [fn]produce of your ground H127, in the land H127 which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:18

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“Cursed shall be the [fn]offspring of your [fn]body and the [fn]produce of your ground H127, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:21 - “Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land H127 where you are entering to possess it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:33 - “A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground H127 and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed all your days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:42 - “The cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground H127.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:51

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - “Moreover, it shall eat the [fn]offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground H127 until you are destroyed, who also will not allow grain, new wine, or oil, and the increase of your herd or the young of your flock to remain for you until they have caused you to perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:63

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:63 - “And it will be that as Yahweh delighted over you to prosper you and multiply you, so Yahweh will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land H127 where you are entering to possess it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:28 - and Yahweh uprooted them from their land H127 in anger and in fury and in great wrath, and He cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:9 - “Then Yahweh your God will [fn]prosper you abundantly in all the work of your hand, in the [fn]offspring of your [fn]body and in the [fn]offspring of your cattle and in the [fn]produce of your ground H127, for Yahweh will return to rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:18 - I declare to you today that you shall surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land H127 where you are crossing the Jordan to enter [fn]and possess it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:20 - by loving Yahweh your God, by listening to His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for [fn]this is your life and the length of your days, [fn]that you may live in the land H127 which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:13 - “And their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to fear Yahweh your God, all the days you live on the land H127 [fn]which you are about to cross the Jordan to [fn]possess.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:20 - “For when I bring them into the land H127 flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to their fathers, and they have eaten and are satisfied and become fat, then they will turn to other gods and serve them and spurn Me and break My covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:43 -

“O nations, cause His people to shout for joy;

For He will avenge the blood of His slaves,

And He will render vengeance on His adversaries,

And He will atone for His land H127 and His people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:47

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:47 - “For it is not an idle word for you; indeed it is your life. And by this word you will prolong your days in the land H127, [fn]which you are about to cross the Jordan to [fn]possess.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:13 - know with certainty that Yahweh your God will not continue to dispossess these nations from before you; but they will be a snare and a trap to you and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land H127 which Yahweh your God has given you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:15 - “And it will be that just as all the good words which Yahweh your God spoke to you have come upon you, so Yahweh will bring upon you all the calamitous words, until He has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.

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Now a man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh the same day with his robes torn and [fn]dust H127 on his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:15 - “You shall not cut off your lovingkindness from my house forever, not even when Yahweh cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth H127.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:31 - “For [fn]as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth H127, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. So now, send and bring him to me, for he [fn]must surely die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:2 - Now it happened that on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul. And his clothes were torn and [fn]dust H127 was on his head. And it happened when he came to David, that he fell to the ground and prostrated himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:10 - “And you and your sons and your servants shall cultivate the land H127 for him, and you shall bring in the produce so that your master’s grandson may have food and eat of it; nevertheless Mephibosheth your master’s grandson shall [fn]eat at my table continually.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7 - “And behold, the whole family has risen against your servant-woman, and they say, ‘Hand over the one who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed, and destroy the heir also.’ Thus they will extinguish my coal which remains, so as to [fn]leave my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth H127.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:32 -

Then it happened that as David was coming to the summit, where he used to worship God, that behold, Hushai the Archite met him with his [fn]coat torn and [fn]dust H127 on his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:12 - “So we shall come to him in one of the places where he can be found, and we will set down on him as the dew falls on the ground H127; and of him and of all the men who are with him, not even one will be left.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:46 - On the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground H127 between Succoth and Zarethan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:34 - then listen in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land H127 which You gave to their fathers.

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