Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H121
אָדָם
Adamaw-dawm'
Adam
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼÂdâm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H121is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H121
Adam the name of the first man, also of a place in Palestine
The King James renders it: Adam.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Adam is rendered "Adam". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 2:20The 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.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
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.
Genesis 2:20וּלְאָדָ֕ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's twelve uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Adam6
- like Adam2
- and for Adam1
- and to Adam1
- for Adam1
- from Adam1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אָדָם | adam | man | Uses551 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אָדָ֥ם2
- אָדָ֗ם2
- אָדָ֑ם1
- אָדָם֙1
- וּלְאָדָ֕ם1
- וּלְאָדָ֣ם1
- כְאָדָ֣ם1
- כְּאָדָ֖ם1
- לְאָדָ֧ם1
- מֵֽאָדָ֤ם1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)6HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3HR/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)2HC/R/Npm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npl
Genesis
eight uses
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.
- וּלְאָדָ֕םuleadamconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and for Adam
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.
- וּלְאָדָ֣םuladamconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Adam
And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
- לְאָדָ֧םleadampreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: for Adam
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.”
- אָדָ֥םʾadamproper noun (a name)tagged: Adam
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.
- אָדָ֑םʾadamproper noun (a name)tagged: Adam
When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.
- אָדָ֗םʾadamproper noun (a name)tagged: Adam
And after he had become the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
- אָדָ֗םʾadamproper noun (a name)tagged: Adam
So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.
- אָדָם֙ʾadamproper noun (a name)tagged: Adam
Joshua
one use
the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
- מֵֽאָדָ֤םmeadampreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Adam
1 Chronicles
one use
Adam, Seth, Enosh,
- אָדָ֥םʾadamproper noun (a name)tagged: Adam
Job
one use
if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,
- כְאָדָ֣םkheadampreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: like Adam
Hosea
one use
But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
- כְּאָדָ֖םkeadampreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: like Adam
The letters
Gematria 45· 605 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.