Definition

soil (from its general redness)

Etymology

from H119 (אָדַם);

Word family

• אָדַם ʼâdam

How 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.