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🏷 Adam · Bible name · Genesis · Semitic · pun · name — by Gerry · Jul 2020 ·
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The name Adam of the first man means “man”. It also means “earth”,
“blood”, “red”. The word root also has the meaning “likeness” &
“disguise”. This is used in a half-admitted pun, where Adam is
created “in God’s likeness”. But that word also occurs in the forms
“make like”, “seem like”, “appear in the disguise of”. We can see why
the spooks like that name, and why they made it central to the Bible.

This pun is not very hidden. In fact, “man” or Adam is introduced as

having been created in God’s likeness. This pun is repeated many times.
Adam also puns with “earth” & “blood”, and these puns are also used
throughout the Bible.

Take a look at the verses below and try to count how many Adams the
authors managed to cram into a single sentence.

Hebrew, Aramaic dm = like, likeness, make like, in disguise of

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‫ דמה‬dmh damah : to be like, to resemble; liken, make myself

like, plan, devise — Old Hebrew (Strong)

‫ דמא‬dmˀ dema : to resemble — Hebrew (Jastrow)

‫ דמי‬dmy demei : to imagine, suspect, consider; suspected,

considered; resembling, like; to compare; to imagine, speculate; to
be like, to take an example; to appear in the disguise of
— Hebrew (Jastrow)

‫ דמי‬dmy demei : to imagine, compare; to resemble, be like, to

imitate; to be compared, to be imagined; to appear in the disguise
of; to seem; suspected; to compare, judge from analogy; to have
an opinion; it seems to me; it seems to us — Hebrew (Jastrow)

‫ דמי‬dmy : to be like; to be like; to compare x to y; likened to; to

make something like; to emulate; to do the same; to draw a
conclusion, imagine, envision; to be similar; to be assimilated to;
to imitate, be in the guise of; to imagine oneself to be something;
to be made like — Aramaic (CAL)

‫ מדמין‬mdmyn : imitator — Aramaic (CAL)

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and
over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth.

wyˀmr ˀlhym nˁšh ˀdm bṣlmnw kdmwtnw wyrdw bdgt hym

wbˁwp hšmym wbbhmh wbkl hˀrṣ wbkl hrmš hrmš ˁl hˀrṣ

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‫ויאמר אלהים נעשה אדם בצלמנו כדמותנו וירדו בדגת הים ובעוף‬
‫השמים ובבהמה ובכל הארץ ובכל הרמש הרמש על הארץ‬

Genesis 1:26

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the

ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living soul.

wyyṣr yhwh ˀlhym ˀt hˀdm ˁpr mn hˀdmh wypḥ bˀpyw nšmt

ḥyym wyhy hˀdm lnpš ḥyh

‫וייצר יהוה אלהים את האדם עפר מן האדמה ויפח באפיו נשמת‬

‫חיים ויהי האדם לנפש חיה‬

Genesis 2:7

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day

that God created man, in the likeness of God made he
him;

zh spr twldt ˀdm bywm brˀ ˀlhym ˀdm bdmwt ˀlhym ˁšh ˀtw

‫זה ספר תולדת אדם ביום ברא אלהים אדם בדמות אלהים עשה‬
‫אתו‬

Genesis 5:1

Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be

shed: for in the image of God made he man.

špk dm hˀdm bˀdm dmw yšpk ky bṣlm ˀlhym ˁšh ˀt hˀdm

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‫שפך דם האדם באדם דמו ישפך כי בצלם אלהים עשה את האדם‬

Genesis 9:6

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