Word

אָדַם

ʼâdam · H119 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences

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DyeCloth manufacture7 verses

Meanings

to be red, to be ruddy

State in which an object is red or reddish in color; often associated with beauty

Examples
Proverbs 23:31 Do not look at wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly;
Lamentations 4:7 Her consecrated ones were purer than snow, They shined more than milk; They were more ruddy in body than pearls of coral, Their form was like lapis lazuli.
to paint red, to dye red

Causative action by which humans give an object a red color, either by painting or dying

Examples
Exodus 26:14 “And you shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red and a covering of fine leather above.
to be red > to stand out

State by which an object is clearly visible as if of a bright red color

Examples
Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us debate your case,” Says the LORD, “Though your sins are as scarlet, They shall become as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be like wool.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

4 occurrences in 4 groups

מָגֵןshield 1
עֶצֶםbone 1
Not stated: they 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מִןfrom+ פָּנִיןruby 1
כlike/as+ תּוֹלָעworm 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עוֹרskin 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries

Color002001001014: אָדַם describes something dyed or made red, as the rams' skins dyed red used in the tabernacle covering.
See002004001005: The word can describe the visible appearance of redness, the reddish look a dyed or ruddy surface presents to the eye.

Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אָדַםʼâdam · H119אָדָם ʼâdâm · H120 · human, humankind, human being(s) · 551×אֲדָמָה ʼădâmâh · H127 · ground, earth, land · 225×אָדֹם ʼâdôm · H122 · red · 9×אֲדַמְדָּם ʼădamdâm · H125 · reddish · 6×אֹדֶם ʼôdem · H124 · ruby, carnelian · 3×אַדְמֹנִי ʼadmônîy · H132 · red, ruddy · 3×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H119. adom [אָדֵם אָדֹם,] verb be red (on formation compare LagBN 83 compare 120) — Qal…

H119. adom
[אָדֵם אָדֹם,] verb be red (on formation compare LagBN 83 compare 120) —
Qal Perfect3plural אָֽדְמוּ ruddy, of Nazirites Lam 4:7;
Pu`al Participle reddened, dyed red, מְאָדָּם Nah 2:4 (of shield), מְאָדָּמִים of rams' skins Exo 25:5; Exo 26:14; Exo 35:7, Exo 35:23; Exo 36:19; Exo 39:34 (all P).
Hithpa`el Imperfect redden, grow or look red, יִתְאַדָּ֑ם Pro 23:31 (of wine);
Hiph`il Imperfect emit (show) redness (compare LagBN 120) כַתּוֺלָע יַאְדִּימוּ Isa 1:18 (of sins) i.e. be glaring, flagrant (compare also Isa 1:15).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Color9 occurrences See1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0