אֲדָמָה
ground
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
81 distinct verses where H127 appears in the Construct state, across 17 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 6 verses
- Genesis 47:18 וְ/אַדְמָתֵֽ/נוּ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cp When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
- Genesis 47:19 אַדְמָתֵ֔/נוּ אַדְמָתֵ֖/נוּ וְ/אַדְמָתֵ֨/נוּ֙ וְ/הָ/אֲדָמָ֖ה n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cp n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cp conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cp conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs 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 servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."
- Genesis 47:20 אַדְמַ֤ת n c fs cs So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's.
- Genesis 47:22 אַדְמַ֥ת אַדְמָתָֽ/ם n c fs cs n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn't sell their land.
- Genesis 47:23 אַדְמַתְ/כֶ֖ם הָ/אֲדָמָֽה n c fs cs + sfx pers 2mp ptcl def.art + n c fs Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
- Genesis 47:26 אַדְמַ֥ת אַדְמַ֤ת n c fs cs n c fs cs Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn't become Pharaoh's.
Exodus 3 verses
- Exodus 3:5 אַדְמַת n c fs cs He said, "Don't come close. Take off your sandals from off your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground."
- Exodus 23:19 אַדְמָ֣תְ/ךָ֔ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
- Exodus 34:26 אַדְמָ֣תְ/ךָ֔ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
Leviticus 1 verse
Deuteronomy 12 verses
- Deuteronomy 7:13 אַ֠דְמָתֶ/ךָ הָֽ/אֲדָמָ֔ה n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms ptcl def.art + n c fs and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
- Deuteronomy 12:19 אַדְמָתֶֽ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
- Deuteronomy 21:23 אַדְמָ֣תְ/ךָ֔ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 28:4 אַדְמָתְ/ךָ֖ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your animals, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
- Deuteronomy 28:11 אַדְמָתֶ֑/ךָ הָ/אֲדָמָ֔ה n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms ptcl def.art + n c fs Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
- Deuteronomy 28:18 אַדְמָתֶ֑/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
- Deuteronomy 28:33 אַדְמָֽתְ/ךָ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always;
- Deuteronomy 28:42 אַדְמָתֶ֑/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.
- Deuteronomy 28:51 אַדְמָתְ/ךָ֮ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
- Deuteronomy 29:28 אַדְמָתָ֔/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.
- Deuteronomy 30:9 אַדְמָתְ/ךָ֖ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;
- Deuteronomy 32:43 אַדְמָת֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Rejoice, you nations, [with] his people: For he will avenge the blood of his servants, Will render vengeance to his adversaries, Will make expiation for his land, for his people.
2 Kings 2 verses
- 2 Kings 17:23 אַדְמָת/וֹ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he spoke by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day.
- 2 Kings 25:21 אַדְמָתֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Nehemiah 2 verses
- Nehemiah 10:35 אַדְמָתֵ֗/נוּ n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cp and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, to the house of Yahweh;
- Nehemiah 10:37 אַדְמָתֵ֖/נוּ n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cp and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
Job 1 verse
Psalms 3 verses
- Psalms 105:35 אַדְמָתָֽ/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp Ate up every plant in their land; And ate up the fruit of their ground.
- Psalms 137:4 אַדְמַ֥ת n c fs cs How can we sing Yahweh's song in a foreign land?
- Psalms 146:4 לְ/אַדְמָת֑/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
Proverbs 2 verses
- Proverbs 12:11 אַ֭דְמָת/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, But he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
- Proverbs 28:19 אַ֭דְמָת/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms One who works his land will have an abundance of food; But one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
Isaiah 6 verses
- Isaiah 1:7 אַדְמַתְ/כֶ֗ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 2mp Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, And it is desolate, As overthrown by strangers.
- Isaiah 14:1 אַדְמָתָ֑/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the foreigner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
- Isaiah 14:2 אַדְמַ֣ת n c fs cs The peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Yahweh for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
- Isaiah 19:17 אַדְמַ֨ת n c fs cs The land of Judah shall become a terror to Egypt; everyone to whom mention is made of it shall be afraid, because of the purpose of Yahweh of Hosts, which he purposes against it.
- Isaiah 28:24 אַדְמָתֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Does he who plows to sow plow continually? does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?
- Isaiah 32:13 אַדְמַ֣ת n c fs cs On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Jeremiah 7 verses
- Jeremiah 12:14 אַדְמָתָ֔/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp Thus says Yahweh against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
- Jeremiah 16:15 אַדְמָתָ֔/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them. I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
- Jeremiah 23:8 אַדְמָתָֽ/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them. They shall dwell in their own land.
- Jeremiah 27:10 אַדְמַתְ/כֶ֔ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 2mp for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.
- Jeremiah 27:11 אַדְמָת/וֹ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let remain in their own land, says Yahweh; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
- Jeremiah 42:12 אַדְמַתְ/כֶֽם n c fs cs + sfx pers 2mp I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.
- Jeremiah 52:27 אַדְמָתֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
Ezekiel 26 verses
- Ezekiel 7:2 לְ/אַדְמַ֥ת prep + n c fs cs You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel, An end: the end is come on the four corners of the land.
- Ezekiel 11:17 אַדְמַ֥ת n c fs cs Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
- Ezekiel 12:19 אַדְמַ֣ת n c fs cs and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, [and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.
- Ezekiel 12:22 אַדְמַ֥ת n c fs cs Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?
- Ezekiel 13:9 אַדְמַ֥ת n c fs cs My hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions, and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 18:2 אַדְמַ֥ת n c fs cs What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
- Ezekiel 20:38 אַדְמַ֥ת n c fs cs and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who disobey against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 20:42 אַדְמַ֣ת n c fs cs You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your fathers.
- Ezekiel 21:2 אַדְמַ֥ת n c fs cs Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word] toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;
- Ezekiel 21:3 לְ/אַדְמַ֣ת prep + n c fs cs and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
- Ezekiel 25:3 אַדְמַ֤ת n c fs cs and tell the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because you said, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:
- Ezekiel 25:6 אַדְמַ֖ת n c fs cs For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of your soul against the land of Israel;
- Ezekiel 28:25 אַדְמָתָ֔/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.
- Ezekiel 33:24 אַדְמַ֤ת n c fs cs Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
- Ezekiel 34:13 אַדְמָתָ֑/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
- Ezekiel 34:27 אַדְמָתָ֖/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.
- Ezekiel 36:6 אַדְמַ֣ת n c fs cs Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations:
- Ezekiel 36:17 אַדְמָתָ֔/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
- Ezekiel 36:24 אַדְמַתְ/כֶֽם n c fs cs + sfx pers 2mp For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
- Ezekiel 37:12 אַדְמַ֥ת n c fs cs Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
- Ezekiel 37:14 אַדְמַתְ/כֶ֑ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 2mp I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 37:21 אַדְמָתָֽ/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp Say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
- Ezekiel 38:18 אַדְמַ֣ת n c fs cs It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils.
- Ezekiel 38:19 אַדְמַ֥ת n c fs cs For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
- Ezekiel 39:26 אַדְמָתָ֛/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid;
- Ezekiel 39:28 אַדְמָתָ֑/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land; and I will leave none of them any more there;
Daniel 2 verses
- Daniel 11:9 אַדְמָתֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He shall come into the realm of the king of the south, but he shall return into his own land.
- Daniel 12:2 אַדְמַת n c fs cs Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Amos 4 verses
- Amos 5:2 אַדְמָתָ֖/הּ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs "The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; There is no one to raise her up."
- Amos 7:11 אַדְמָתֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms For Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"
- Amos 7:17 וְ/אַדְמָתְ/ךָ֖ אֲדָמָ֤ה אַדְמָתֽ/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms n c fs n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Therefore thus says Yahweh: 'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"
- Amos 9:15 אַדְמָתָ֑/ם אַדְמָתָ/ם֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp I will plant them on their land, And they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them," says Yahweh your God.
Jonah 1 verse
Zechariah 2 verses
- Zechariah 2:12 אַדְמַ֣ת n c fs cs Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.
- Zechariah 9:16 אַדְמָתֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; For they are like the jewels of a crown, Lifted on high over his land.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, אדמה (ʼădâmâh) means “ground.” Its English rendering has broadened — “land” classically, “ground” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 211 verses in 28 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Genesis 1:25. Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H127 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 211
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 211 distinct verses.
- 28 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 28 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #210
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 211 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 37 verses 18%
- Deuteronomy 35 verses 17%
- Ezekiel 27 verses 13%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 211 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 99 verses · 47%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 88 verses · 42%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 24 verses · 11%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Land 88×, Earth 52×, Ground 41×
- American Standard Version: Land 68×, Ground 58×, Earth 32×
- Berean Standard Bible: Land 106×, Ground 38×, Earth 34×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ground 91×, Land 90×, Earth 18×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H127 across 222 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 19 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H127 across 221 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 38 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H127 across 220 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H127 across 230 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
7 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 7 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. ground (as tilled, yielding sustenance) Gn 2:5, 9; 3:17, 23; 4:2, 3, 12; 5:29; 8:21; 19:25; 47:23 Ex 34:26 (all J); Ex 23:19 (E) Dt 7:13; 11:17; 26:2, 10, 15; 28:4, 11, 18, 33, 42, 51; 30:9; 2 S 9:10 Is 1:7; 28:24; 30:23(×2), 24 Je 7:20; 14:4; 25:33 Hg 1:11 Mal 3:11 ψ 83:11; 105:35 Pr 12:11 28:19 1 Ch 27:26 Ne 10:36, 38 cf. fig. Jb 5:6 (‖ עפר); personif. 31:38 Jo 1:10; also אִישׁ הָא׳ Gn 9:20 (J) tiller, husbandman; meton. אֹהֵב א׳ 2 Ch 26:10 i.e. lover of husbandry (or do these point to earlier meaning tillage? cf. DlPr 105) אִישׁ עֹבֵד א׳ Zc 13:5. e.g. Genesis 2:5
- 2. piece of ground, landed property Gn 47:18, 19(×3), 20, 22(×2), 23, 26 (all J) ψ 49:12 (pl.) e.g. Genesis 47:18
- 3. earth as material substance; of wh. man is made Gn 2:7 (עָפָר מִן־הָא׳); so animals v 19 (מִן־הָא׳); altar Ex 20:24; earthen vessels חַרְשֵׂי א׳ Is 45:9, on head, sign of woe 1 S 4:12 2 S 1:2; 15:32; of contrition Ne 9:1 (cf. אֵפֶר, עָפָר); מַעֲבֵה הָא׳ 1 K 7:46 cf. 2 Ch 4:17 (firmness of earth, firm earth, clay-ground, for casting-moulds; or clay-moulds (Be)? or is this n.pr.? Klo proposes בַּמְּעָרָה הָאֲדֻמָּה in the red cave); mule-loads of 2 K 5:17; in it lie the dead מִיְּשֵׁנֵי אַדְמַת־עָפָר Dn 12:2 cf. Gn 3:19, 23 ψ 146:4. e.g. Genesis 2:7
- 4. ground as earth’s visible surface; רֶמֶס הָא׳ Gn 1:25; 6:20 (both P) Ho 2:20 cf. Gn 7:8; 9:2 (J?) Lv 20:25 (P) Dt 4:18 Ez 38:20; also Gn 4:10 (J) Is 24:21 Am 3:5 Zp 1:2, 3; as wet with dew 2 S 17:12; rain 1 K 17:14; 18:1; cf. personif. פָּֽצְתָה הָא׳ אֶת־פִּיהָ Nu 16:30 (P) (‖ ארץ v 32), vid. v 31 Gn 4:11; of partic. place, spot א׳ קֹדֶשׁ Ex 3:5 especially as abode of man Ex 10:6 Dt 4:10, 40; 12:1 1 S 20:31 2 S 14:7; oft.פְּנֵי הָא׳ Gn 2:6; 4:14; 6:1, 7; 7:4, 23; 8:8, 13 Ex 32:12; 33:16 Nu 12:3 Dt 6:15; 7:6 (all J, D) 1 S 20:15 + 9 textual e.g. Genesis 1:25
- 5. land, territory, country (= ארץ Gn 47:19 (J) Lv 20:24 (J?—‖ ארץ) cstr. bef. n.pr. א׳ מִצְרַיִם Gn 47:20, 26; א׳ יְהוּדָה Is 19:17; א׳ יִשְׂרָאֵל Ez 11:17 + 16 textual Ez; espe. of land as promised or given by י׳ to his people = Canaan Gn 28:15 Ex 20:12 Nu 11:12; 32:11 (all J?) Dt 5:16 + 16 textual Dt, Jos; 1 K 8:34, 40 +, Je 16:15; 24:10; 25:5; 35:15 Ez 28:25 2 Ch 6:25, 31; 7:20; 33:8; cf. also Dt 12:19; 21:23; 29:27 2 K 17:23 Is 6:11; 7:16; 14:1 +, Ez 34:13, 27 +, Ne 9:25 (א׳ שְׁמֵנָה),—in all c. 41 textual + Jo 2:21 (personif.); א׳ הַקֹּדֶשׁ Zc 2:16 (cf. sub 4 supr. hence also as Yahweh’s land Dt 32:43 Is 14:2 Zc 9:16 2 Ch 7:20. e.g. Genesis 47:19
- 6. whole earth, inhabited earth (seld.; cf. also פְּנֵי הָא׳ sub 4 supr.) Gn 12:3; 28:14 (both J cf. אֶרֶץ 18:18; 22:18; 26:4) Dt 14:2 Am 3:2 Is 24:21. e.g. Genesis 12:3
- 7. n.pr.loc. city in Naphtali (as built cf. אָדָם 4? = ed-Dâme?) W. of L. Gennes. Jos 19:36 v. Di. e.g. Joshua 19:36
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. ground, land (as tilled, Ger. bebaut? DlPr 105, but Fleisch. (MerxArchiv I, 236 f) comp. Ar. أَدَمَة skin, as smoothly covering & close-fitting; √דם cf. Ar. دَمَّ smear (spread over surface); cf. also NöZMG 1886, 737)—א׳ Gn 1:25 +; cstr. אַדְמַת Gn 47:20 +; sf. אַדְמָתִי Jb 31:38 + 2 textual etc.; pl. אֲדָמוֹת ψ 49:12—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אדם (ʼâdam) (H119) — to be red.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אֲדָמָה
- , cmp. foreg.; thick and moist) [earth], clay. Gen. R. s. 14 the potter takes sand (עפר) which is male (masc. gender) and clay (אדמה) which is female (fem. gender).—Sabb. VIII, 5 א׳ כחותם וכ׳ as much clay as is required for a seal on bag-knots. [For the meaning of the phonetic equivalents of our w. in other Semit. tongues, v. Ges. H. Dict. s. v.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 81 distinct written forms H127 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 21 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H127, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- אדם ʼâdâm H120 man
- אדם ʼâdôm H122 red
- אדם ʼôdem H124 ruby
- אדמדם ʼădamdâm H125 reddish
- אדמני ʼadmônîy H132 red
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 203 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 211 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 1:25
- Exodus 3:5
- Leviticus 20:24
- Numbers 11:12
- Deuteronomy 4:10
- Joshua 23:13
- 1 Samuel 4:12
- 2 Samuel 1:2
- 1 Kings 7:46
- 2 Kings 5:17
- 1 Chronicles 27:26
- 2 Chronicles 4:17
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
