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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 37 times in 35 verses in 'Deu' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:10 - “especially concerning the day you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:18 - “the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the water beneath the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:40 - “You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:16 - ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may be well with you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:15 - “(for the LORD your God is a jealous God among you), lest the anger of the LORD your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:6 - “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:13

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 land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:9 - “and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - “lest the LORD’s anger be aroused against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and you perish quickly from the good land which the LORD is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:21 - “that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:1 - “These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:19 - “Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:2 - “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:1 - “If anyone is found slain, lying in the field in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - “his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance; for he who is hanged is accursed of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:15 - “You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God is giving 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 produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:10 - ‘and now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you, O LORD, have given me.’ Then you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD 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 land which You have given us, just as You swore to our fathers, “a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:4 - “Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11 - “And the LORD will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:18 - “Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:21 - “The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:33 - “A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:42 - “Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of your land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:51

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - “And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:63

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:63 - “And it shall be, that just as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:28 - ‘And the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and 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 - “The LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your land for good. For the LORD will again rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:18 - “I announce to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:20 - “that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:13 - “and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:20 - “When I have brought them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fathers, and they have eaten and filled themselves and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods and serve them; and they will provoke Me and break My covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:43 - “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people;[fn]
For He will avenge the blood of His servants,
And render vengeance to His adversaries;
He will provide atonement for His land and His people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:47

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:47 - “For it is not a futile thing for you, because it is your life, and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess.”
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