What Does Genesis 2:6 Mean in the King James?
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The soil that will form the human is first watered by what rises from the earth.
THE MEANING
The whole ground receives water as a mist rises from the earth. What sustains the soil comes up from the earth itself and reaches its surface. The next verse forms the human from that same ground.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The ground’s nourishment does not have to arrive from above: here, water rises from the earth and reaches its surface.
THE ROOT
אֲדָמָה
adamah
GROWS FROM
אדם
The root carries the sense of redness; adamah means soil or ground, and adam names a human being.
Adamah, the soil, and Adam, the human formed from it in the next verse, belong to the same word-family. English separates “ground” and “man,” while Hebrew keeps the human tied to the watered earth from which the human takes shape.
ALSO GROWS
adam: human being; person
אָדָם
The next verse forms Adam from the dust of the adamah, bringing the human and the ground into one word-family.
adom: red; ruddy
אָדֹם
This branch preserves the root’s color sense, echoing the red earth associated with adamah.
THE PATTERN
Water received by the ground becomes provision that bears fruit and flows outward.
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.THE THREAD
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.Adamah, the ground in this verse, shares its root with adam, the human formed from its dust in the next. The watered soil and the human are joined: the ground this verse prepares is the material from which the human takes shape.
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