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The man (Adam)

אָדָםStrong’s H0121

adam (a-dam)

Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Adam is the Hebrew word usually translated “adam”, “like adam” and “from adam”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.

“And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.”
Genesis 2:20 KJV
Meaning
  1. The first named man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.2.19
  2. Adam = "red"
How it's translated
  • adam 6
  • like adam 2
  • and for adam 1
  • and to adam 1
  • for adam 1
  • from adam 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 8
  • Joshua 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1
  • Job 1
  • Hosea 1

5 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

אָדָם adam · the man (Adam)

The first named man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.2.19; married to Eve (H2332); father of: Cain (H7014B), Abel (H1893) and Seth (H8352); also translated "man" at Gen.2.19,21,23; 3.8,9,20; 5.2; "mankind" at Deu.32.8; "others" at Job.31.33; Another spelling of a.dam (אָדָם "Adam" H0121) man, human being

אָדָם adam · Adam

Adam = "red" city in Jordan valley

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “adam” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

AD'AM, noun

In Heb., Man; primarily, the name of the human species, mankind; appropriately, the first Man, the progenitor of the human race. The word signifies form, shape, or suitable form, hence, species. It is evidently connected with Heb., to be like or equal, to form an image, to assimilate. Whence the sense of likeness, image, form, shape; Gr., a body, like. [See Man.]

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.