Land
אֲדָמָהStrong’s H0127adamah (a-da-mah)
Appears in 211 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Adamah is the Hebrew word usually translated “ground”, “land” and “land of”. It appears in 211 verses of the Old Testament.
“So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.”
Meaning
- Ground, landground (as general, tilled, yielding sustenance) · piece of ground, a specific plot of land · earth substance (for building or constructing) · ground as earth's visible surface · land, territory, country · whole inhabited earth · city in Naphtali
How it's translated
- the ground 73
- the land 32
- land of 23
- ground your 11
- own land their 10
- the earth 8
- ground 7
- land its 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 37
- Deuteronomy 35
- Ezekiel 27
- Jeremiah 18
- Isaiah 14
- Exodus 9
28 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:39In contextThus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
- Daniel 12:2In contextAnd many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
- Zechariah 2:12In contextAnd the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
- Zechariah 9:16In contextAnd the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.
- Zechariah 13:5In contextBut he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
- Genesis 1:25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
All 211 verses, by book
- Genesis 37
- 1:252:52:62:72:92:193:173:193:234:24:34:104:114:124:145:296:16:76:207:47:87:238:88:138:219:29:2012:319:2528:1428:1547:1847:1947:2047:2247:2347:26
- Deuteronomy 35
- 4:104:184:405:166:157:67:1311:911:1711:2112:112:1914:221:121:2325:1526:226:1026:1528:428:1128:1828:2128:3328:4228:5128:6329:2830:930:1830:2031:1331:2032:4332:47
- 1 Chronicles 1
- 27:26
- Ezekiel 27
- 7:211:1712:1912:2213:918:220:3820:4221:221:325:325:628:2533:2434:1334:2736:636:1736:2437:1237:1437:2138:1838:1938:2039:2639:28
- Hosea 1
- 2:18
- Jonah 1
- 4:2
- Haggai 1
- 1:11
- Malachi 1
- 3:11
Hebrew dictionary
אֲדָמָה adamah · land
: soil 1) ground, land 1a) ground (as general, tilled, yielding sustenance) 1b) piece of ground, a specific plot of land 1c) earth substance (for building or constructing) 1d) ground as earth's visible surface 1e) land, territory, country 1f) whole inhabited earth 1g) city in Naphtali
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “land” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LAND, noun
- Earth, or the solid matter which constitutes the fixed part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the sea or other waters, which constitute the fluid or movable part.
- Any portion of the solid, superficial part of the globe, whether a kingdom or country, or a particular region.“Go, view the land even Jericho” Joshua 2:1
- Any small portion of the superficial part of the earth or ground.
- Ground; soil, or the superficial part of the earth in respect to its nature or quality; as good land; poor land; moist or dry land
All definitions and other forms of “land”
- Real Estate.
- The inhabitants of a country or region; a nation or people.
- The ground left unplowed between furrows, is by some of our farmers called a land
LAND, noun
Urine; whence the old expression, land dam, to kill. obsolete
LAND, verb transitive
to set on shore; to disembark; to debark; as, to land troops from a ship or boat; to land goods.
LAND, verb intransitive
To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark.
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.