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Why are both males and females called “Adam” in Genesis 5:2?

Answered by BibleQ . August 16, 2012 - 10:52 am

Genesis 5:1-3 (ESV) This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. 3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in […]

Is God talking about Adam and Eve in Genesis 1:27 or about other males and females created before Adam and Eve?

Answered by BibleQ . February 17, 2010 - 9:02 pm 4

Adam was the first man and Eve was the first woman. Genesis 1 gives the summary of creation, while Genesis 2 gives some extra detail, including the information that God had created a male first (Adam) and only created a woman (Eve) after the man had realised that none of the animals was a fit […]

What does “man” mean in Genesis?

Answered by BibleQ . August 7, 2009 - 10:27 pm 1

Genesis was originally written in Hebrew, and the early chapters of Genesis use two different Hebrew words for man: adam and ish. Adam can mean either man, human or humankind, or it can refer to the specific person named “Adam”. Translators have to determine the meaning from context. For example, in Gen 2:20 the word […]

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Why are both males and females called “Adam” in Genesis 5:2?

Is God talking about Adam and Eve in Genesis 1:27 or about other males and females created before Adam and Eve?

What does “man” mean in Genesis?

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