# H127 אֲדָמָה

אֲדָמָה (ʼădâmâh), Strong’s H127: soil (from its general redness) KJV: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.. Occurs 225 times.

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*ʼădâmâh* — soil (from its general redness)

KJV: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.

Derived from [אָדַם ʼâdam](https://besorah.bible/word/H119) (flush or turn rosy)

Occurs 225 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אֲדָמָה 224 n.f. ground, land (as tilled)
- 1 ground (as tilled, yielding sustenance)
- 2 piece of ground, landed property
- 3 earth as material substance
- 4 ground as earth's visible surface
- 5 land, territory, country
- 6 whole earth, inhabited earth
- 7 n. pr. loc. city in Naphtali

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=25) — God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on…
- [Genesis 2:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=5) — No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused…
- [Genesis 2:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=6) — but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
- [Genesis 2:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=7) — The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became…
- [Genesis 2:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=9) — Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the…
- [Genesis 2:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=19) — Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man…
- [Genesis 3:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=17) — To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded…
- [Genesis 3:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=19) — You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are…
- [Genesis 3:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=23) — Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
- [Genesis 4:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=2) — Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
