Bible Names

Adam: meaning of the name

Adam means “earthy; red.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Adam in Hebrew and Greek

אָדָם H121

ʼÂdâm (aw-dawm') — Adam the name of the first man, also of a place in Palestine

the same as H120 (אָדָם);

Ἀδάμ G76

Adám — Adam, the first man; typically (of Jesus) man (as his representative)

of Hebrew origin (H0121);

Who named Adam in the Bible

Places named Adam

Adam in Scripture

“Adam” appears in 27 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 2:19

    And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

  • Genesis 2:20

    And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

  • Genesis 2:21

    And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

  • Genesis 2:23

    And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

  • Genesis 3:8

    And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

  • Genesis 3:9

    And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

  • 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;

  • Genesis 3:20

    And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.