Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve

Definition: Adam was the first human creature. The Hebrew term ’a·dham′ is also properly translated “man,” “earthling man,” and “mankind.” Eve, the first woman, was Adam’s wife.

Ad⋅am-and-Eve

  [ad-uhm-uhn-eev, -uhnd-] Show IPA

–noun

the puttyroot.

Origin:
1780–90

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Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם‎, ʼĀḏām, "dust; man; mankind"; Arabic: آدم‎, ʼĀdam) and Eve (Hebrew: חַוָּה‎, Ḥawwā, "living one"; Arabic: حواء‎, Ḥawwāʼ) were, according to the Book of Genesis of the Bible, the first man and woman created by God. They are also credited as the first man and woman according to the Quran.

adam-and-eve definition

Adam-and-Eve (ad′əm ən ēv′)

in the Judeo-Christian and Islāmic traditions, the original human couple, parents of the human race.

In the Bible, there are two accounts of their creation. According to the Priestly (P) history of the 5th or 6th century bc (Genesis 1:1–2:4), God on the sixth day of Creation created all the living creatures and, “in his own image,” man both “male and female.” God then blessed the couple, told them to be “fruitful and multiply,” and gave them dominion over all other living things. According to the lengthier Yahwist (J) narrative of the 10th century bc (Genesis 2:5–7, 2:15–4:1, 4:25), God, or Yahweh, created Adam at a time when the earth was still void, forming him from the earth’s dust and breathing “into his nostrils the breath of life.” God then gave Adam the primeval Garden of Eden to tend but, on penalty of death, commanded him not to eat of the fruit of the “tree of knowledge of good and evil.” Subsequently, so that Adam would not be alone, God created other animals but, finding these insufficient, put Adam to sleep, took from him a rib, and created a new companion, Eve.