Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, adam is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as “a human” and in a collective sense as “mankind”. Genesis 1 tells of God’s creation of the world and its creatures, including adam, meaning humankind; in Genesis 2 God forms “Adam”, this time meaning a single male human, out of “the …
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