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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].
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H120 matches the Hebrew אָדָם ('āḏām),
which occurs 30 times in 29 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - “They did not say, ‘Where is the LORD
Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
Who led us through the wilderness,
Through a land of deserts and of pits,
Through a land of drought and of [fn]deep darkness,
Through a land that no one crossed
And where no man H120 dwelt?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:25 - I looked, and behold, there was no man, H120
And all the birds of the heavens had fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - Therefore thus says the Lord [fn]GOD, “Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man H120 and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22 - Speak, “Thus says the LORD,
‘The corpses of men H120 will fall like dung on the open field,
And like the sheaf after the reaper,
But no one will gather them.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:14 - Every man H120 is stupid, devoid of knowledge;
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his [fn]idols;
For his molten images are deceitful,
And there is no breath in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:23 - I know, O LORD, that a man’s H120 way is not in himself,
Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:20 - Can man H120 make gods for himself?
Yet they are not gods!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:5 - Thus says the LORD,
“Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind H120
And makes flesh his [fn]strength,
And whose heart turns away from the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:6 - “I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man H120 and beast; they will die of a great pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:5 - “I have made the earth, the men H120 and the beasts which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is [fn]pleasing in My sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:27 - “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man H120 and with the seed of beast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:30 - “But everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man H120 who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be [fn]set on edge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:19 - great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, H120 giving to everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:20 - who has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day both in Israel and among mankind; H120 and You have made a name for Yourself, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:43 - ‘Fields will be bought in this land of which you say, “It is a desolation, without man H120 or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - ‘While they are coming to fight with the Chaldeans and to fill them with the corpses of men H120 whom I have slain in My anger and in My wrath, and I have hidden My face from this city because of all their wickedness:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10 - “Thus says the LORD, ‘Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, “It is a waste, without man H120 and without beast,” that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man H120 and without inhabitant and without beast,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:12 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘There will again be in this place which is waste, without man H120 or beast, and in all its cities, a [fn]habitation of shepherds who rest their flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:29 - “And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says the LORD, “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written on it [fn]that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will make man H120 and beast to cease from it?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 47:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:2 - Thus says the LORD:
“Behold, waters are going to rise from the north
And become an overflowing torrent,
And overflow the land and all its fullness,
The city and those who live in it;
And the men H120 will cry out,
And every inhabitant of the land will wail.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:15 - “For behold, I have made you small among the nations,
Despised among men. H120

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:18 - “Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will live there, nor will a son of man H120 reside in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:33 - “Hazor will become a haunt of jackals,
A desolation forever;
No one will live there,
Nor will a son of man H120 reside in it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3 - “For a nation has come up against her out of the north; it will make her land an object of horror, and there will be no inhabitant in it. Both man H120 and beast have wandered off, they have gone away!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40 - “As when God overthrew Sodom
And Gomorrah with its neighbors,” declares the LORD,
“No man will live there,
Nor will any son of man H120 reside in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:14 - The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself:
“Surely I will fill you with a [fn]population H120 like locusts,
And they will cry out with [fn]shouts of victory over you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:17 - All mankind H120 is stupid, devoid of knowledge;
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his [fn]idols,
For his molten images are deceitful,
And there is no breath in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - “Her cities have become an object of horror,
A parched land and a desert,
A land in which no man lives
And through which no son of man H120 passes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:62

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:62 - and say, ‘You, O LORD, have [fn]promised concerning this place to cut it off, so that there will be nothing dwelling in it, [fn]whether man H120 or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.’
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