Word

אָדָם

ʼÂdâm · H121 · Hebrew · proper noun · 11 occurrences

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Person

Adamfirst named in Genesis 2:1926 verses

Place

Adamfirst named in Joshua 3:161 verse

Meanings

Human being as an individual or as a class of living creatures; sometimes explicitly subdivided between male and female; associated with mortality (human, humankind, human being(s))

Examples
Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. On the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
Hosea 6:7 But like Adam they have violated the covenant; There they have dealt treacherously with Me.
Adam

First man; created by God; husband of Eve, father of Cain, Abel, and Seth

Examples
Genesis 3:17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; With hard labor you shall eat from it All the days of your life.
Genesis 4:25 Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, “God has appointed me another child in place of Abel, because Cain killed him.”
Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. On the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
Adam

Town; located near the river Jordan near Zarethan

Examples
Joshua 3:16 then the waters which were flowing down from above stood and rose up in one heap, a great distance away at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those which were flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. So the people crossed opposite Jericho.
Hosea 6:7 But like Adam they have violated the covenant; There they have dealt treacherously with Me.

How it’s used In 4 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עִירcity, town 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

חָיָהto be alive, to become alive, to live 1
יָדַעto know 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 3 groups

לto/for 5
מִןfrom 2
כlike/as 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

יוֹםday, time 2
תּוֹלְדָהgenerations, genealogy 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 3 entries

People001001003: אָדָם as the personal name Adam still carries the underlying sense of humankind, the man from whom mankind descends, as in the record “this is the book of the generations of Adam” (Genesis 5:1).
Names of People003001007: The word names Adam specifically as an individual, for whom no suitable helper was found among the animals (Genesis 2:20).
Names of Locations003001010: The same form is also used of the place name Adam, near which the Jordan's waters stood in a heap at the crossing (Joshua 3:16).

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