אֲדָמָה H127

Home gloss: ground
Instead of (KJV / RSV): earth
Note: Kept apart from אֶרֶץ "land" (v. 1) and עָפָר "dust" (2:7); the word the human (אָדָם) is shaped from and named for (2:7; 3:19)
Rulings: 2

Occurrences (28)

1:25 And Elohim made the living thing of the land after its kind, and the beast after its kind, and every creeper of the ground after its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.

2:5 now no shrub of the field was yet in the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for Elohim had not made it rain on the land, and human there was none to serve the ground;
2:6 and an upwelling would go up from the land and give drink to all the face of the ground—
2:7 and Elohim shaped the human, dust from the ground, and blew into his nostrils breath of life; and the human became a living soul.
2:9 And Elohim made spring up from the ground every tree desirable to the sight and good for fare, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowing good and bad.
2:19 And Elohim shaped from the ground every living thing of the field and every flyer of the skies, and brought them to the human to see what he would call to it; and whatever the human would call to it—living soul—that was its name.

3:17 And to man he said, "Because you heard the voice of your woman and ate from the tree that I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it,' cursed is the ground for your sake; in pain you shall eat it all the days of your life.
3:19 In the sweat of your nostrils you shall eat bread, until you return to the ground, for from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return."
3:23 And Elohim sent him away from the garden of Eden, to serve the ground from which he was taken.

4:2 And she added to bear his brother, Abel. And Abel was shepherding flock, and Cain was serving ground.
4:3 And it was, at the end of days, and Cain brought from the fruit of the ground a gift to .
4:10 And he said, "What have you done? The voice of the bloods of your brother—they are crying out to me from the ground.
4:11 And now, cursed are you from the ground, which parted its mouth to take the bloods of your brother from your hand.
4:12 When you serve the ground, it shall not add to give its power to you; a waverer and a wanderer you shall be in the land."
4:14 Look, you have driven me out this day from on the face of the ground, and from your face I shall be hidden; and I shall be a waverer and a wanderer in the land, and it shall be: everyone finding me will kill me."

5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one shall comfort us from our deed and from the pain of our hands, from the ground that cursed."

6:1 And it was, when the human began to be many on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
6:7 And said, "I will wipe the human whom I created from on the face of the ground, from human to beast, to creeper and to the flyers of the skies; for I am sorry that I made them."
6:20 From the flyers to its kind, and from the beast to its kind, from every creeper of the ground to its kind, two from all shall come to you, to keep alive.

7:4 For in seven days still, I am making rain on the land forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe every standing thing that I made from on the face of the ground."
7:8 From the pure beast, and from the beast that is not pure, and from the flyers, and everything that creeps on the ground,
7:23 And he wiped every standing thing that was on the face of the ground, from human to beast, to creeper and to the flyers of the skies; and they were wiped from the land; and there was left only Noah, and those with him in the box.

8:8 And he sent away the dove from with him, to see whether the waters had become light from on the face of the ground.
8:13 And it was, in one and six hundred years, in the first, on one of the month, the waters were parched from on the land; and Noah removed the covering of the box and saw, and look, the face of the ground was parched.
8:21 And smelled the restful scent, and said to his heart, "I will not add to make light of the ground again for the sake of the human, for the shaping of the heart of the human is bad from his youth; and I will not add again to strike every living thing, as I have done.

9:2 And the awe of you and the dismay of you shall be on every living thing of the land and on every flyer of the skies; in all with which the ground creeps, and in all the fish of the sea: into your hand they are given.
9:20 And Noah began, a man of the ground, and planted a vineyard.

12:3 And I will bless those blessing you, and the one making light of you I will curse; and in you shall be blessed all the clans of the ground."