Definition

soil (from its general redness)

Etymology

from H119 (אָדַם);

Where the KJV renders it

• country
• earth
• ground
• husband(-man) (-ry)
• land

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.