אָדָםʼâdâm
man, mankind
Pronunciation: aw-dawm' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H120
Meanings
1. a man, human being (Genesis 2:5; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 2:8)
2. man, mankind (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 9:5; Genesis 9:6)
3. Adam, first man (1 Chronicles 21:1; Job 1:6; Genesis 4:25)
4. city in Jordan valley (Joshua 3:16)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 550 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”
- Genesis 1:27 So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
- Genesis 2:5 neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil.
- Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.
- Genesis 2:8 Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.
- Genesis 2:15 The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.
See every passage
- Genesis 37 verses
- Exodus 14 verses
- Leviticus 15 verses
- Numbers 22 verses
- Deuteronomy 6 verses
- Joshua 2 verses
- Judges 5 verses
- 1 Samuel 6 verses
- 2 Samuel 4 verses
- 1 Kings 5 verses
- 2 Kings 4 verses
- 1 Chronicles 4 verses
- 2 Chronicles 6 verses
- Nehemiah 3 verses
- Job 26 verses
- Psalms 62 verses
- Proverbs 43 verses
- Ecclesiastes 43 verses
- Isaiah 27 verses
- Jeremiah 29 verses
- Lamentations 2 verses
- Ezekiel 130 verses
- Daniel 4 verses
- Hosea 3 verses
- Joel 1 verses
- Amos 1 verses
- Jonah 3 verses
- Micah 5 verses
- Habakkuk 3 verses
- Zephaniah 2 verses
- Haggai 1 verses
- Zechariah 6 verses
- Malachi 1 verses
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).