is this fact true?

Question

i heard that the name adam and eve is not names . It means simply man and women in ancient greek..found that in the book of facts 2004..

Answer 1

Well, I think facts are often true....

Answer 2

If Adam and Eve came first then obviously the ancient greek used their names for man and woman. I don't think God was sitting around with a Greek dictionary looking for names for these two, because there was no Greece at the time.

Answer 3

Gen 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve (ḥawwāh); because she was the mother of all living.


ָאָדם
’āḏām: The proper noun designating Adam:
A. A proper noun or name used of the first human in some cases. It also occurs as a common noun meaning humanity, humankind, etc., depending on its content. Here the discussion centers on its use as a proper noun or name for the first man or humankind.
The word is used in 1Ch_1:1 to refer to the first person and gives him the name Adam, since it stands at the head of a list of proper names. In Genesis 1-5, it is used as a proper name or noun depending on the context. In Gen_4:25; Gen_5:3-5, the word ’āḏām refers to a specific person and is a proper name. It seems best to render the Hebrew as "man," a proper noun, in Gen_5:1, since it echoes Gen_1:26-28. In all earlier references, it is best rendered as "the man," since it bears the Hebrew article (except for Gen_1:26; Gen_2:5; Gen_2:20). The NIV renders the proper name "Adam" in Gen_2:20 for the first time (Gen_2:20; Gen_3:17, Gen_3:20-21; Gen_4:1, Gen_4:25; Gen_5:3-5). The translations do not agree in detail as to when to render the noun as a proper name or a proper noun ("the man") (NASB, proper name [Gen_2:20; Gen_3:17, Gen_3:21; Gen_4:25; Gen_5:1, Gen_5:3-4, 5]).
The root or etymology of the word is uncertain, but the biblical author is clearly making a wordplay about Adam's being taken from the ground (cf. ’āḏām [H121]) to ’aḏāmāh [H127]; see Gen_2:7; Gen_3:19).
B. A proper noun referring to a small town along the east side of the Jordan River. It is the location of a mighty act of God when He stopped the flow of the Jordan so Israel could cross it in flood time (Jos_3:16).

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ַחָוּה
hÌ£awwāh: A proper noun designating Eve. The name of the first woman created by the Lord God. Adam gave her the name Eve, meaning "living, making alive" (Gen_3:20). She was the wife of Adam (Gen_4:1). In Gen_2:23, she was designated as a woman (’iššāh [H802]), a female being apart from the male being, Adam, both sharing common humanity. As her name indicates, she then gave birth to the human race (Gen_4:1-2).

Answer 4

Not Greek...The ancient Hebrew. Adam becomes a play on words in the original language.

Answer 5

You need to look it up in it's Hebrew text. The old testament was written in Hebrew and some in Aramaic. The word Adam is from the other word adaham which meant dark ground. And yes that could mean that he was dark skinned. But it is irrelevant. (I know some out there would love to use that as an argument). Adam was formed from the earth or dust or soil, and was the very first man to til the earth in order to grow their source of food after having been kicked out of the Garden of Eden.

Answer 6

Adam in Hebrew means man or mankind.

Eve in Hebrew (Chavvah) means "life" or "living"

The Old Testament was written in Hebrew but your source may have take the Hebrew words and traslated them to Greek

More important is what the 2nd Adam did for us. The 2nd Adam was Jesus Christ and although the first Adam sinned, the 2nd Adam paid the price for all our sin.

Answer 7

All names have a meaning in their original language.
Adam and Eve come from Hebrew, not Greek, and Eve comes from a word meaning life.

Answer 8

~da from (0119)
Transliterated Word TDNT Entry
'adam TWOT - 25a
Phonetic Spelling Parts of Speech
aw-dawm' Noun Masculine

Definition
man, mankind
man, human being
man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT)
Adam, first man
city in Jordan valley

hwwx causatively from (02331)
Transliterated Word TDNT Entry
Chavvah None
Phonetic Spelling Parts of Speech
khav-vaw' Proper Name Feminine

Definition
Eve = "life" or "living"
the first woman, wife of Adam

Answer 9

A fact is true by definition.
The question is whether it is a fact

Adam ("Earth" or "man", Standard Hebrew אָדָם, Adam; "Soil" or "Light Brown", Arabic آدم, Adam)

Eve (Hebrew: חַוָּה, Ḥavva; Arabic: حواء, Hawwa; Ge'ez: ሕይዋን Hiywan; "living one")

Answer 10

No. In the original language Adam means "black" and Eve means "brown".

Answer 11

Adam (modernly transliterated as "Adom") means "red", "earth" and "human being" in Hebrew. The earth of the Holy Land is reddish colored, and human beings can be considered reddish in color (i.e., pink-skinned).

"Eve" means "woman" (among other things) in Hebrew.

God made "humans from humus", to do the
Biblical pun in English.