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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 3 / 5 (1Ki 8:40–Jer 16:4)

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:40 - that they may [fn]fear You all the days that they live upon the face of the land H127 which You have given to our fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:7 - then I will cut off Israel from the land H127 which I have given them, and the house which I have set apart as holy for My name, I will [fn]cast out of My presence. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:34 - [fn]And this event became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to blot it out and destroy it from off the face of the earth H127.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:15 -

“So Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land H127 which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the [fn]River, because they have made their [fn]Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:14 - “For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘The [fn]bowl of flour shall not be exhausted, nor shall the jar of oil [fn]be empty, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the face of the earth H127.’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:1 -

Now it happened after many days that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the face of the earth H127.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:17 - So Naaman said, “If not, please let your servant at least be given two mules’ load of earth H127; for your servant will no longer offer burnt offering nor will he sacrifice to other gods, but to Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:23 - until Yahweh caused Israel to depart from His presence, as He spoke through all His slaves the prophets. So Israel went into exile from their own land H127 to Assyria until this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:8 - “And I will not make the foot of Israel wander anymore from the land H127 which I gave their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:21 - Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land H127.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:26 -

Ezri the son of Chelub was over the [fn]workers of the field who cultivated the soil H127.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:17 - On the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground H127 between Succoth and Zeredah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:25 - then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land H127 which You have given to them and to their fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:31 - that they may [fn]fear You, to walk in Your ways all the days they live upon the face of the land H127 which You have given to our fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:20 - then I will uproot you from My land H127 which I have given [fn]you, and this house which I have set apart as holy for My name I will cast out of My presence and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:10 - He also built towers in the wilderness and hewed many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the [fn]Shephelah and in the plain. He also had plowmen and vinedressers in the hill country and the fertile fields, for he loved the soil H127.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:8 - “And I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land H127 which I have set up for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law, the statutes and the judgments given by the hand of Moses.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:1 -

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the sons of Israel gathered with fasting, in sackcloth and with dirt H127 upon them.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:25 -

“They captured fortified cities and a [fn]rich [fn]land H127.

They took possession of houses full of every good thing,

Hewn cisterns, vineyards, olive groves,

Trees for food in abundance.

So they ate, were filled, and grew fat,

And reveled in Your great goodness.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:35 - and to bring the first fruits of our ground H127 and the first fruits of all the fruit of every tree to the house of Yahweh annually,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37 - We will also bring the first of our [fn]dough, our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the new wine and the oil to the priests at the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithe of our ground H127 to the Levites, for the Levites are they who receive the tithes in all the towns where we serve.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 -

“For wickedness does not come out from the dust,

Nor does trouble sprout from the ground H127,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:38 -

“If my land H127 cries out against me,

And its furrows weep together,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:11 -

Their [fn]inner thought is that their houses are forever

And their dwelling places [fn]from generation to generation;

They have called their lands H127 after their own names.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:10 -

Who were destroyed at En-dor,

Who were as dung for the ground H127.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:30 -

You send forth Your [fn]Spirit, they are created;

And You renew the face of the ground H127.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:35 -

And [fn]they ate up all vegetation in their land,

And [fn]they ate up the fruit of their ground H127.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:4 -

How can we sing a song of Yahweh

In a foreign land H127?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:4 -

His spirit departs, he returns to [fn]the earth H127;

In that very day his plans perish.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:11 -

He who cultivates his land H127 will be satisfied with bread,

But he who pursues empty things lacks a heart of wisdom.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:19 -

He who cultivates his ground H127 will be satisfied with food,

But he who pursues empty things will be satisfied with poverty.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 -

Your land is desolate;

Your cities are burned with fire;

Your fields H127—strangers are devouring them in your presence;

It is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 -

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He said,

“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,

Houses are without people,

And the land H127 is devastated to desolation,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16 - “For before the boy will know to refuse evil and choose good, the land H127 whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:1 -

When Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel, and [fn]put them in their own land H127, then sojourners will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:2 - And the peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land H127 of Yahweh for their male and female slaves; and [fn]they will take their captors captive and will have dominion over their taskmasters.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:9 -

For the waters of Dimon are full of [fn]blood;

Surely I will put added woes upon Dimon,

A lion upon those of Moab who have escaped and upon the remnant of the land H127.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:17 - And the land H127 of Judah will become a [fn]terror to Egypt; everyone [fn]to whom it is mentioned will be in dread of it because of the counsel of Yahweh of hosts which He is counseling against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:17 -

And it will be at the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her harlot’s wages and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms [fn]on the face of the earth H127.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:21 -

So it will be in that day,

That Yahweh will punish the host of heights on high,

And the kings of the earth H127 on earth H127.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:24 -

Does the [fn]farmer plow [fn]continually to plant seed?

Does he continually [fn]turn and harrow his ground H127?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:23 -

Then He will give you rain for [fn]the seed which you will sow in the ground H127, and bread from the produce of the ground H127, and it will be [fn]rich and fat; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:24 - Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground H127 will eat salted fodder, which [fn]has been winnowed with shovel and fork.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:13 -

For the land H127 of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up,

Indeed, against all the joyful houses and the exultant city.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 -

“Woe to the one who contends with his [fn]Maker

An earthenware vessel [fn]among the vessels of earth H127!

Will the clay say to the [fn]potter, ‘What are you doing?’

Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground H127; and it will burn and not be quenched.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:2 - “And they will spread them out to the sun, the moon, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served, and which they have walked after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or buried; they will be as dung on the face of the ground H127.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:14 -

Thus says Yahweh concerning all My evil neighbors who beat at the inheritance with which I have caused My people Israel to inherit, “Behold, I am about to uproot them from their land H127 and will uproot the house of Judah from among them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:4 -

“Because the ground H127 is [fn]dismayed,

For there has been no rain on the land,

The farmers have been put to shame;

They have covered their heads.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4 - “They will die of deadly diseases; they will not be lamented or buried; they will be as dung on the surface of the ground H127 and come to an end by sword and famine, and their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth.”

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