Word Study · Strong's H121 · Hebrew
אָדָם
Adam
aw-dawm'
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼÂdâm
“Adam the name of the first man, also of a place in Palestine”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Adam the name of the first man, also of a place in Palestine
Rendered in the KJV as
Adam.
- 12occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 5 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 10inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 12 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 10
- אָדָ֥ם2
- אָדָ֗ם2
- אָדָ֑ם1
- אָדָם֙1
- וּלְאָדָ֕ם1
- וּלְאָדָ֣ם1
- כְאָדָ֣ם1
- כְּאָדָ֖ם1
- לְאָדָ֧ם1
- מֵֽאָדָ֤ם1
How it is rendered · 6
- Adam6
- like Adam2
- and for Adam1
- and to Adam1
- for Adam1
- from Adam1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- proper noun (a name)6
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)2
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpm · 6
- HR/Npm · 3
- HC/R/Npm · 2
- HR/Npl · 1
All 12, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Genesis8 occurrences
- Genesis 2:20וּלְאָדָ֕םuleadamconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.here: and for Adam
- Genesis 3:17וּלְאָדָ֣םuladamconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.here: and to Adam
- Genesis 3:21לְאָדָ֧םleadampreposition + proper noun (a name)And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.here: for Adam
- Genesis 4:25אָדָ֥םʾadamproper noun (a name)And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”here: Adam
- Genesis 5:1אָדָ֑םʾadamproper noun (a name)This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.here: Adam
- Genesis 5:3אָדָ֗םʾadamproper noun (a name)When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.here: Adam
- Genesis 5:4אָדָ֗םʾadamproper noun (a name)And after he had become the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.here: Adam
- Genesis 5:5אָדָם֙ʾadamproper noun (a name)So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.here: Adam
1 Chronicles1 occurrence
Same headword in Strong's