The man (Adam)
אָדָםStrong’s H0121adam (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.”
Meaning
- The first named man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.2.19
- 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.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 3:17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
- Genesis 3:21Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
- Genesis 4:25And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
- Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
- Genesis 5:3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
- Genesis 5:4And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
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.