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"Ground" and "Man" in Genesis

Genesis 2:7
"... then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground (adama) and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man (adam) became a living creature." (Genesis 2:7)

Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said,

“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
    and have eaten of the tree
of which I commanded you,
    ‘You shall not eat of it’,
cursed is the ground (adama) because of you;
    in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonours you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth (adama) shall be blessed.”

Genesis shows strong links between the ground (adama) and the man (adam).

Genesis 2:7 shows the man being formed from the ground.

Genesis 3:17 shows the ground being cursed because of the man

But Genesis 12:3 tells us that the ground has hope.

All the families of the ground (adama) find their hope in an offspring of Abraham.

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