Adamah אֲדָמָה

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Adamah
אֲדָמָה
Transliterationadamah
Strong's numberH127 (H0127G, H0127I, H0127H)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechfeminine noun
Glossland: soil
Occurrences225 in 211 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (37)

Adamah (Hebrew אֲדָמָה, Strong's H127) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “land: soil”. It occurs 225 times in 211 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H0127G: land: soil

: soil
1) ground, land
1a) ground (as general, tilled, yielding sustenance)
1b) piece of ground, a specific plot of land
1c) earth substance (for building or constructing)
1d) ground as earth's visible surface
1e) land, territory, country
1f) whole inhabited earth
1g) city in Naphtali

H0127I: land: planet

: planet
1) ground, land
1a) ground (as general, tilled, yielding sustenance)
1b) piece of ground, a specific plot of land
1c) earth substance (for building or constructing)
1d) ground as earth's visible surface
1e) land, territory, country
1f) whole inhabited earth
1g) city in Naphtali

H0127H: land: country

: country
1) ground, land
1a) ground (as general, tilled, yielding sustenance)
1b) piece of ground, a specific plot of land
1c) earth substance (for building or constructing)
1d) ground as earth's visible surface
1e) land, territory, country
1f) whole inhabited earth
1g) city in Naphtali

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVland (121), earth (53), ground (43), lands (3), husbandry (1), country (1)
BSBland (73), ground (37), earth (33), your land (13), soil (9), their land (8), their own land (7), our land (4), dust (3), their homeland (3), its own land (3), his land (3), and 19 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Adamah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Joel

Amos

Jonah

Zephaniah

Haggai

Zechariah

Malachi

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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