adam · be red

What it means

adam (אָדַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be red”.

Turn red; of rams' skins, dyed red.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To have or take the color of blood.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• dyed red ×6
• it is red ×1
• reddened ×1
• ruddier ×1
• they are red ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×6
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Nahum×1

• Exodus 25:5

  rams' skins dyed red, fine skins, and acacia wood;

• Exodus 26:14

  You shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of fine skins above.

• Exodus 35:7

  and rams’ skins dyed red, and fine skins, and acacia wood;

• Exodus 35:23

  And every man with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and rams’ skins dyed red, and fine skins, brought them.

• Exodus 36:19

  And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of fine skins above.

• Exodus 39:34

  and the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of fine skins, and the veil that screens it;

• Proverbs 23:31

  Do not look at wine when it is red, when it gives its sparkle in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

• Isaiah 1:18

  Come now, and let us argue it out, says YHWH. If your sins are like scarlet, they will be white as snow; if they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.

• Lamentations 4:7

  Purer than snow were her Nazirites, whiter than milk; ruddier in body than pearls, like sapphire their form.

• Nahum 2:3

  The shield of his mighty men is reddened, the men of valor clothed in scarlet; in the fire of steel are the chariots on the day he prepares them, and the cypresses are shaken.