אֲדָמָה
ʼădâmâh · ad-aw-maw'
soil (from its general redness)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H119 (אָדַם);
soil (from its general redness)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › the doorway, the way in › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to reveal, behold
Strength, the leader of the doorway, the way in of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אֲדָמָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
225 occurrences · 225 OT · 0 NT · 85 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the earth28 · 19%
- in the land13 · 9%
- of the ground12 · 8%
- the land11 · 8%
- upon the earth9 · 6%
- of thy land8 · 5%
- the ground8 · 5%
- land7 · 5%
- of the land6 · 4%
- unto the land4 · 3%
- the earth4 · 3%
- on the ground3 · 2%
- upon the land3 · 2%
- and the land3 · 2%
- ground3 · 2%
- and earth3 · 2%
- in their land3 · 2%
- against the land3 · 2%
- in their own land3 · 2%
- out of their own land2 · 1%
- from off the land2 · 1%
- of thy ground2 · 1%
- of earth2 · 1%
- upon the ground2 · 1%
- from the earth2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.