The human race
From Reconciling understandings of Scripture and Science
| "adam" words in the Hebrew Bible | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hebrew | transliteration | literally | meanings | example |
| אדם | adam | man | (a) man | Proverbs 12:23 |
| (a) woman | Numbers 31:35 | |||
| (a) person | 1 Kings 8:46, Job 34:29 | |||
| humankind | Deuteronomy 4:32 | |||
| Adam, the אדם called אדם | Genesis 5:1 | |||
| "the man" (English idiom) | Psalm 84:5 | |||
| האדם | ha adam | the man | the man | Genesis 3:22,24 |
| humankind | Genesis 9:6, Ecclesiastes 12:5, Psalm 116:11 | |||
| בן־אדם | ben adam | son of man | human being | Numbers 23:19 |
| בני אדם | bnei adam | sons of man | humankind | Deuteronomy 32:8, Proverbs 8:4 |
| בני האדם | bnei ha adam | sons of the man | men | Genesis 11:5, 2 Chronicles 6:30 |
| people | ||||
| humankind | ||||
TODO: Bruce (talk) 11:20, 24 December 2020 (AEDT)
- Adam in the LXX
- addressed with plural "you" before Eve is created in Genesis 2:17 only, not v.16
- Adam in the New Testament
- the archetypal ancestor
- figurative Rom 5:14 - "who is the figure of him that was to come" (KJV) "who is a type of the one who was to come" (NRSV)
