What Does Genesis 5:2 Mean in the King James?
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
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 name Adam is given to male and female together, so the verse places their shared humanity at the root of the generations that follow.
THE MEANING
You belong to a humanity this verse names together: male and female share the name Adam. The blessing rests on them as one community before the passage follows their generations.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the assumption that Adam names only the male: here the name belongs to both together.
THE ROOT
אָדָם
adam
GROWS FROM
אדם
ʾ-d-m
Humanity, linked in Genesis to אֲדָמָה (adamah), ground.
Adam is not only an individual label here: it names male and female together. Its echo with אֲדָמָה (adamah, ground) carries an earth-linked sense into their shared human name.
ALSO GROWS
adamah: Ground, soil.
אֲדָמָה
Its consonants and sound echo Adam; Genesis 2:7 makes the human-ground connection explicit.
adom: Red, reddish.
אָדֹם
The shared consonants carry a possible color echo associated with soil, adding material resonance without making color the name’s definition.
וַיְבָרֶךְ
vayvarekh
GROWS FROM
ברך
b-r-k
Bless; the related noun בֶּרֶךְ (berekh) means knee.
“blessed” in this verse is vayvarekh. The blessing reaches male and female together through the plural “them.” The related knee-word offers a bodily echo often associated with bending, while the verse’s plain emphasis is that both receive the blessing.
ALSO GROWS
berekh: Knee.
בֶּרֶךְ
This related form gives the blessing root an embodied resonance alongside the shared blessing in the verse.
berakhah: Blessing.
בְּרָכָה
This noun from the same root names what is bestowed on both male and female here.
THE PATTERN
A shared human identity holds across distinctions of sex, nation, and social standing.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.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.Genesis 5:2 gives אָדָם (adam, human) as the shared name of male and female; Genesis 2:7 places אָדָם (adam, human) beside אֲדָמָה (adamah, ground). The echo opens their shared name as earth-linked human nature, not a title limited to the male.
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