And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh,.... Of "his bones", because made out of a pair of his ribs, as some think, one on each side, and therefore expressed in the plural number, "and of his flesh", a part of which was taken with the rib; this Adam knew, either being awake while she was made, though asleep when the rib was taken out; or by divine revelation, by an impress of it on his mind; or it might have been declared to him in a dream, while asleep, when, being in an ecstasy or trance, this whole affair was represented unto him: and this was "now" done, just done, and would be done no more in like manner; "this time" , this once, as many render it; so it was, but hereafter the woman was to be produced in the way of generation, as man:she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man: her name was "Ishah", because taken from "Ish", as "vira" in Latin from "vir", and "woman" in our language from "man".
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Genesis 2:23
Genesis 2:23
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flesh: Genesis 2:24
Woman: Heb. Isha:, 1 Corinthians 11:8-9
taken: 1 Corinthians 11:8
Man: Heb. Ish:
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