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In Genesis 2:18–22, the woman is created to be ezer ke-negdo. Ke-negdo means "alongside, opposite, a counterpart to him", and ezer means active intervention on behalf of the other person. [12] The woman is called ishah, woman, with an explanation that this is because she was taken from ish, meaning "man"; the two words are not in fact connected.
Seed of the woman or offspring of the woman (Biblical Hebrew: זַרְעָ֑הּ, romanized: zar‘āh, lit. 'her seed') is a phrase from the Book of Genesis: as a result of the serpent's temptation of Eve, which resulted in the fall of man, God announces (in Genesis 3:15) that he will put an enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman.
A woman, upon giving birth, becomes impure for 7 days for a son or 14 days for a daughter. [13] A person who has been diagnosed with tzaraath. [14] A house and its contents which have been diagnosed with tzaraath. [15] A man or woman with an unnatural emission from the genitals , or a menstruating woman . A person who touches them, or who ...
The term "man child" in Jeremiah 20:15 (KJV: "A man child is born") is translated from the Hebrew term: בן זכר, where in the Greek it is υἱὸς ἄρσην, or simply ἄρσην as in the Septuagint rendering of this passage. [21] "Rule" from Greek: ποιμαίνειν 19] meaning "tend as a shepherd" (cf. Revelation 2:27). [22]
She was the first woman that God created, and she was both the wife and companion of Adam. Eve is described as being named Havah in the Torah. The Catholic Church by ancient tradition recognizes both Adam and Eve (in Latin: Adam et Eva) as saints. And the traditional liturgical feast of Saints Adam and Eve was celebrated on December 24 since ...
The Woman of the Apocalypse (or the woman clothed with the sun, Greek: γυνὴ περιβεβλημένη τὸν ἥλιον; Latin: Mulier amicta sole) is a figure–often considered to be a reference to the Virgin Mary in Catholic theology–described in Chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation (written c. AD 95).
The Vulgate Bible, translated by Jerome and others in the 4th century C.E., was an early Latin translation of the Hebrew Bible Old Testament. In Genesis 2:23, Jerome uses the words Vir for man and Virago for "woman" attempting to reproduce a pun on "male" and "female" (ish and ishah) that existed in the Hebrew text. [10] [11] The Vulgate reads:
The fall of man, the fall of Adam, or simply the Fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. [1] The doctrine of the Fall comes from a biblical interpretation of Genesis, chapters 1–3. [1]