אֲדָמָהʼădâmâh

ground, land

Pronunciation: ad-aw-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H127

Meanings

1. ground (Genesis 2:5; Genesis 2:9; Genesis 3:17)

2. piece of ground, landed property (Genesis 47:18; Genesis 47:19; Genesis 47:20)

3. earth as material substance (Genesis 2:7; Genesis 2:19; Exodus 20:24)

4. ground as earth's visible surface (Genesis 1:25; Genesis 6:20; Hosea 2:20)

5. land, territory, country (Genesis 47:19; Leviticus 20:24; Genesis 47:20)

6. whole earth, inhabited earth (Genesis 12:3; Genesis 28:14; Genesis 18:18)

7. city in Naphtali (Joshua 19:36)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 225 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 1:25 God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small animals, each able to produce offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
  • 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 2:6 Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land.
  • 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 2:9 The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  • Genesis 2:19 So the Lord God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and the man chose a name for each one.
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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).