אֲדָמָה
adama · ground, land
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H127 · appears 225 times in the Bible
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adama (אֲדָמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ground, land”.
The ground, the soil that is tilled; also the territory where people live. In Hebrew "adamah" sounds like "adam", the human being formed from it.
How to say it
a·da·ma
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
- Farmland, or dust.
- A territory with its inhabitants, or the whole surface of the world.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
The ground, the soil that is tilled; also the land of a people. It sounds like אָדָם, the human being, who was formed from it (Genesis 2:7).
- The ground from which the man was formed Genesis 2:7
- The ground that is worked Genesis 2:5Genesis 4:2
- The ground cursed because of the man Genesis 3:17
- “Holy ground” Exodus 3:5
- A people's land; “all the families of the ground” Exodus 20:12Genesis 12:3
How we translate it
“Ground” 157 times, “land” 54, “earth” 8, “soil” 5. This edition's glossary sets “ground” and allows “land” when it is the homeland, for example the land given to Israel (Exodus 20:12). So it is kept apart from אֶרֶץ, which is “earth, land”, and the reader sees the link with אָדָם in “formed the man from dust from the ground”.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- ground ×157
- land ×54
- earth ×8
- soil ×5
- lands ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×43
- Exodus×9
- Leviticus×2
- Numbers×5
- Deuteronomy×37
- Joshua×2
- 1 Samuel×3
- 2 Samuel×5
- 1 Kings×8
- 2 Kings×4
- 1 Chronicles×1
- 2 Chronicles×6
- Nehemiah×4
- Job×2
- Psalms×6
- Proverbs×2
- Isaiah×16
- Jeremiah×18
- Ezekiel×28
- Daniel×3
- Hosea×1
- Joel×2
- Amos×10
- Jonah×1
- Zephaniah×2
- Haggai×1
- Zechariah×3
- Malachi×1
- Genesis 1:25
And Elohim made the animals of the earth according to their kind, and the livestock according to their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.
- Genesis 2:5
Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for YHWH Elohim had not sent rain on the earth, and there was no human being to work the ground;
- Genesis 2:6
but a mist would go up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.
- Genesis 2:7
And YHWH Elohim formed the man from dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.
- Genesis 2:9
And YHWH Elohim made every tree sprout from the ground that is pleasing to the sight and good for food, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 2:19
And YHWH Elohim formed from the ground every animal of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called it, as a living being, that was its name.
- Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, “Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; with toil you will eat from it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.”
- Genesis 3:23
And YHWH Elohim sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
- Genesis 4:2
And again she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of flocks, and Cain was a worker of the ground.
- Genesis 4:3
And it happened at the end of some days that Cain brought from the fruit of the ground an offering to YHWH.
- Genesis 4:10
And he said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground.
- Genesis 4:11
And now, cursed are you away from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
- Genesis 4:12
When you work the ground, it will no longer give its strength to you; a wanderer and a drifter you will be on the earth.”
- Genesis 4:14
Look, you have driven me out today from the face of the ground, and from your presence I will be hidden; and I will be a wanderer and a drifter on the earth, and it will happen that whoever finds me will kill me.”
- Genesis 5:29
And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us from our work and from the toil of our hands, from the ground that YHWH has cursed.”
- Genesis 6:1
And it happened, when human beings began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
- Genesis 6:7
And YHWH said, “I will wipe out the human being whom I have created from the face of the ground, from human being to livestock, to creeping things and to the birds of the sky, for I am sorry that I made them.”
- Genesis 6:20
Of the birds according to their kind, and of the livestock according to their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every kind will come to you to be kept alive.
- Genesis 7:4
For in seven more days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out all that exists, which I have made, from the face of the ground.”
- Genesis 7:8
Of the clean animals and of the animals that are not clean, and of the birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
- Genesis 7:23
And he wiped out all that existed that was on the face of the ground, from human being to livestock, to creeping things and to the birds of the sky; and they were wiped out from the earth. And only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
- Genesis 8:8
And he sent out the dove from him to see whether the waters had decreased from the face of the ground.
- Genesis 8:13
And it happened in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and look, the face of the ground had dried.
- Genesis 8:21
And YHWH smelled the pleasing aroma, and YHWH said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of the human being, for the inclination of the heart of the human being is evil from his youth; and I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
- Genesis 9:2
And the fear and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the sky, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are given.
- Genesis 9:20
And Noah, a man of the ground, was the first to plant a vineyard.
- Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and the one who treats you with contempt I will curse; and in you all the families of the ground will be blessed.”
- Genesis 19:25
He overturned those cities, and the whole plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
- Genesis 28:14
Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the ground will be blessed in you and in your offspring.
- Genesis 28:15
Look, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land, for I will not abandon you until I have done what I have spoken to you.”
- Genesis 47:18
That year ended, and they came to him the second year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that the silver is spent and the herds of animals belong to my lord; nothing is left before my lord except our bodies and our land.
- Genesis 47:19
Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh; and give us seed, so that we may live and not die, and the land will not become desolate.”
- Genesis 47:20
So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians sold each man his field, because the famine was strong upon them; and the land became Pharaoh’s.
- Genesis 47:22
Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they ate their allotment that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.
- Genesis 47:23
Joseph said to the people, “Look, I have bought you today, and your land, for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you; sow the land.
- Genesis 47:26
Joseph made it a statute, to this day, concerning the land of Egypt: to Pharaoh belongs the fifth. Only the land of the priests by itself did not become Pharaoh’s.
- Exodus 3:5
He said, “Do not come near here. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”
- Exodus 8:21
For if you do not let my people go, look, I am going to send on you, on your servants, on your people, and into your houses the swarms of flies; and the houses of the Egyptians will be filled with the swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand.
- Exodus 10:6
They will fill your houses and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians, such as your fathers and your fathers’ fathers have not seen, from the day they came to be on the earth until this day.’” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
And 185 more times.