Original Language Studio
Genesis 3:17
“And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H121 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Adam the name of the first man, also of a place in Palestine
- Derivation
- the same as H120 (אָדָם);
- KJV renderings
- Adam.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- לְ — preposition
- אָדָ֣ם — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 11 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 4:25Genesis 5:1Genesis 5:3Genesis 5:4Genesis 5:5
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אָדָם here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.