ʼădâmâh — H127

H127 · Hebrew — אדמה

Pronunciation: ad-aw-maw'

Definition

feminine noun

soil (from its general redness)

  1. ground, land
    1. ground (as general, tilled, yielding sustenance)
    2. piece of ground, a specific plot of land
    3. earth substance (for building or constructing)
    4. ground as earth's visible surface
    5. land, territory, country
    6. whole inhabited earth
    7. city in Naphtali

Usually translated as

land, earth, ground, husbandman, country, husbandry, husband

Origin

from H119

Greek equivalents

Occurrences

ʼădâmâh occurs 224 times in 210 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (37), Exodus (9), Leviticus (2), Numbers (5), Deuteronomy (35), Joshua (2), 1 Samuel (3), 2 Samuel (5), 1 Kings (8), 2 Kings (4), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (6), Nehemiah (4), Job (2), Psalms (6), Proverbs (2), Isaiah (14), Jeremiah (18), Ezekiel (27), Daniel (3), Hosea (1), Joel (2), Amos (7), Jonah (1), Zephaniah (2), Haggai (1), Zechariah (2), Malachi (1)

Strong's Lexicon — A