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Adam is a common masculine given name in the English language, of Hebrew origin. The name derives from Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם), the first human according to the Hebrew Bible . When used as noun, אָדָם means "man" or "humanity".
In Genesis, the name "Adam" is given to the first human. [4] Beyond its use as the name of the first man, the Hebrew word adam is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as "mankind". [4] Genesis 1 tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, including the Hebrew word adam, meaning ...
Adam is a holy figure in the Abrahamic religions who is seen as the first human created by God. Adam may also refer to: Adam (given name) Adam (surname) Adam (murder victim), the name police gave to an unidentified male child whose torso was discovered in the River Thames in London; Adamu (Assyrian king), the earliest Assyrian king of Middle ...
Genesis 4:26 says: "And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh; then began men to call upon the name of the Lord". The traditional Jewish interpretation of this verse, though, implies that it marked the beginning of idolatry, i.e. that men start dubbing "Lord" things that were mere creatures.
The Sethite line begins with Adam. [1] The Sethite line in Genesis 5 extends to Noah and his three sons. [2]The Cainite line in Genesis 4 runs to Naamah. [citation needed] The seventh generation Lamech descended from Cain is described as the father of Jabal and Jubal (from his first wife Adah) and Tubal-cain and Naamah (from his second wife, Zillah).
This list of Scottish Gaelic given names shows Scottish Gaelic given names beside their English language equivalent. In some cases, the equivalent can be a cognate , in other cases it may be an Anglicised spelling derived from the Gaelic name, or in other cases it can be an etymologically unrelated name.
Adam naming the animals as described in Genesis.In some interpretations, he uses the “Adamic language” to do so. The Adamic language, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, is the language spoken by Adam (and possibly Eve) in the Garden of Eden.
The Creation of Adam (Italian: Creazione di Adamo), also known as The Creation of Man, [2]: plate 54 is a fresco painting by Italian artist Michelangelo, which forms part of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, painted c. 1508 –1512. [3] It illustrates the Biblical creation narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God gives life to Adam, the ...