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אָדָם
ʼâdâm · Hebrew · Strong's H120 · 552 occurrences
The KJV renders 7 different Hebrew and Greek words as “person”
What it means
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
from H119 (אָדַם);
How the KJV renders it
man mean, of low degree, person
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“person”
“of low degree”
also renders tapeinós (G5011)
Answers that weigh this word
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Where it appears
552 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 5:21 · HNcmsa
They took away their livestock: of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.
1 Chronicles 17:17 · HTd/Ncmsa
This was a small thing in your eyes, O God, but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.
1 Chronicles 21:13 · HNcmsa
David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand, for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
1 Chronicles 29:1 · HR/Ncmsa
David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.
1 Kings 4:31 · HTd/Ncmsa
For he was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations all around.
1 Kings 8:38 · HTd/Ncmsa
whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,
1 Kings 8:39 HTd/Ncmsa1 Kings 8:46 HNcmsa1 Kings 13:2 HNcmsa1 Samuel 15:29 HNcmsa1 Samuel 16:7 HTd/Ncmsa1 Samuel 17:32 HNcmsa1 Samuel 24:9 HNcmsa1 Samuel 25:29 HNcmsa1 Samuel 26:19 HTd/Ncmsa2 Chronicles 6:18 HTd/Ncmsa2 Chronicles 6:29 HTd/Ncmsa2 Chronicles 6:30 HTd/Ncmsa2 Chronicles 6:36 HNcmsa2 Chronicles 19:6 HR/Ncmsa2 Chronicles 32:19 HTd/Ncmsa2 Kings 7:10 HNcmsa2 Kings 19:18 HNcmsa2 Kings 23:14 HNcmsa2 Kings 23:20 HNcmsa2 Samuel 7:14 HNcmsa2 Samuel 7:19 HTd/Ncmsa2 Samuel 23:3 HRd/Ncmsa2 Samuel 24:14 HNcmsaAmos 4:13 HR/NcmsaDaniel 8:16 HNcmsaDaniel 8:17 HNcmsaDaniel 10:16 HNcmsaDaniel 10:18 HNcmsaDeuteronomy 4:28 HNcmsaDeuteronomy 4:32 HNcmsaDeuteronomy 5:24 HTd/NcmsaDeuteronomy 8:3 HTd/NcmsaDeuteronomy 20:19 HTi/NcmsaDeuteronomy 32:8 HNcmsaEcclesiastes 1:3 HRd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 1:13 HTd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 2:3 HTd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 2:8 HTd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 2:12 HTd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 2:18 HRd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 2:21 HC/R/NcmsaEcclesiastes 2:22 HRd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 2:24 HRd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 2:26 HR/NcmsaEcclesiastes 3:10 HTd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 3:11 HTd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 3:13 HTd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 3:18 HTd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 3:19 HTd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 3:21 HTd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 3:22 HTd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 5:19 HTd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 6:1 HTd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 6:7 HTd/Ncmsa
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