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אָדָם

adam

aw-dawm'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼâdâm

ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)

Rendered in the KJV as

[idiom] another, [phrase] hypocrite, [phrase] common sort, [idiom] low, man (mean, of low degree), person.

  • 551
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 22 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 107
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 107

  • אָדָ֗ם33
  • אָדָ֖ם32
  • אָדָֽם׃30
  • אָדָ֔ם29
  • אָדָ֕ם29
  • אָדָ֣ם26
  • אָדָם֙25
  • אָ֭דָם20
  • הָאָדָ֖ם19
  • אָדָ֥ם18
  • אָדָ֑ם15
  • הָאָדָֽם׃12

and 95 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 66

  • humankind168
  • the humankind76
  • a person38
  • the man25
  • anyone24
  • the person20
  • a human14
  • human[s]11
  • from humankind9
  • among the humankind8
  • human being6
  • [is] a person5

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 12

  • noun · masculine singular299
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular129
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular29
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular26
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular9
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular2
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
  • preposition + preposition + noun · masculine singular1
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular1
  • question particle + noun · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsa · 299
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 129
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 29
  • HR/Ncmsa · 26
  • HC/Ncmsa · 9
  • HC/R/Ncmsa · 2
  • HC/Rd/Ncmsa · 1
  • HC/Td/Ncmsa · 1
  • HNcmsc · 1
  • HR/R/Ncmsa · 1
  • HTd/Ncbsa · 1
  • HTi/Ncmsa · 1

The first 500 of 551, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Ezekiel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis45 occurrences
Exodus14 occurrences
Leviticus15 occurrences
Numbers24 occurrences
Deuteronomy7 occurrences
Joshua2 occurrences
Judges6 occurrences
1 Samuel7 occurrences
2 Samuel4 occurrences
1 Kings5 occurrences
2 Kings4 occurrences
1 Chronicles4 occurrences
2 Chronicles6 occurrences
Nehemiah3 occurrences
Job26 occurrences
Psalms62 occurrences
Proverbs45 occurrences
Ecclesiastes49 occurrences
Isaiah27 occurrences
Jeremiah30 occurrences
Lamentations2 occurrences
Ezekiel113 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled אָדָם

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).