Strong's Hebrew · H120

אָדָם

ʼâdâm · aw-dawm'

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

Definition

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

Derivation

from H119 (אָדַם);

Appears 550 times in Scripture

Genesis 2:16

And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,

Genesis 2:5

Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted, for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Genesis 2:19

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

Genesis 2:15

Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

Genesis 2:20

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 2:7

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 1:27

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Genesis 2:18

The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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