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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #128 - אֲדָמָה

Transliteration

'ădâmâh

Phonetics

ad-aw-maw'

Origin

the same as (H127)

Parts of Speech

Proper Name Location

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Adamah = “the earth”

1) city in Naphtali

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Frequency Lists

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Word

KJV (1)

NAS (1)

HCS (1)

BSB (1)

ESV (1)

WEB (1)

Verse Results

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

אֲדָמָה f.

(1) earth (perh. so called from being red, or tawnyish [“see Credner on Joel, p. 125, seq.” Ges. add.]), Exodus 20:21 used of dust which mourners put upon their heads, 1 Samuel 4:12; 2 Samuel 15:32.

(2) the ground which is tilled, field, land, Genesis 4:2, 47:19, 22 Genesis 47:22, 23 Genesis 47:23; Psalms 105:35; Isaiah 28:24 אֲדָמָה אֹהֵב “one who loves the ground,” i.e. agriculture, 2 Chronicles 26:10 used of the produce of the ground, Isaiah 1:7.

(3) land, region, country, Genesis 28:15 אַדְמַת יְהֹוָה “the land of Jehovah,” i.e. Canaan, Isaiah 14:2 pl. אֲדָמוֹת lands, regions, once Psalms 49:12.

(4) the earth, Genesis 4:11, 6:1 7:4.

(5) [Adamah], pr.n. of a town of the tribe of Naphtali, Joshua 19:36.

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וַאֲדָמָ֥ה ואדמה vaadaMah wa’ăḏāmāh wa·’ă·ḏā·māh

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