Genesis 2:20-23

KJV

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.
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;
²² And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
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.

RSV

²⁰ The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him. ²¹ So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; ²² and the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. ²³ Then the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,^[a]
    because she was taken out of Man.”^[b]

[a] Heb ishshah

[b] Heb ish

JPS Tanakh

²⁰ And the man gave names to all the cattle and to the birds of the sky and to all the wild beasts; but for Adam no fitting helper was found. . . . 

Adam's tardemah

Notes from John Walton's lecture The Lost World of Adam and Eve:

• Tardemah: deep sleep
  • a visionary state: unresponsive to the human realm, responsive to communication from the divine realm
  • compare Abraham's tardemah in Genesis 15:12-17 also Eliphaz, Daniel
    • Eliphaz: Job 4:13-17
    • Daniel:
  • LXX translates έκστασς [ekstasis]; Vulgate sopor (as early as Tertullian)
  • i.e. Adam in a vision sees himself cut in two, and she is the other half
• As "dust", it's a matter of identity, not formation.
  • v.24 This is why they have such "one flesh" identity!

Genesis 15:12-17 Job 4:13-17

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The act of naming . . .