So the LORD God caused the man [adam] to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's [adam] ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man [adam], and he brought her to the man [adam].
The early Old English (OE) wif – from the Proto-Germanic wibam, “woman” – originally denoted a female, and later became the Middle English (ME) wif, wiif, wyf. By 1175 it was starting to be used to mean a married female, with the two meanings coexisting until the late 16th century.
Ephesians 2:10) The biblical woman is a gospel-centered woman. She is created, redeemed, blessed, and gifted to be a blessing to those around her.
The first woman according to the biblical creation story in Genesis 2–3, Eve is perhaps the best-known female figure in the Hebrew Bible. Her prominence comes not only from her role in the Garden of Eden story itself, but also from her frequent appearance in Western art, theology, and literature.
In Genesis 1:27 we read, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." The man and woman are not named and both are created at the same time out of the same red earth.
Woman was created as a helper to the man. If the man had needed a help to till the earth, another man would have been more useful; if he needed comfort, male friendship would have been more agreeable. (...) God was surely able to create another man from Adam's rib.
Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human.
Whereas Eve was created from Adam's rib (Genesis 2:22), some accounts hold that Lilith was the woman implied in Genesis 1:27 and was made from the same soil as Adam.
Archaeological evidence suggests that God was considered female for the first 200,000 years of human life on earth, even if male-dominated religions sought to displace the matriarchal order.
The Bible mentions the Lilith only once, as a dweller in waste places (Isaiah 34:14), but the characterization of the Lilith or the lili (in the singular or plural) as a seducer or slayer of children has a long pre-history in ancient Babylonian religion.
"A gracious woman gains honor; violent men gain only wealth." The Good News: Any woman who is compassionate in her life will be rewarded in heaven, while those who act in anger will be punished.
Biblical Femininity is Priceless and Rare
In Proverbs 31 we see character and integrity. A woman of honor, integrity, and virtue is priceless and rare. If you're a single man, you have the two most important decisions in your life: the Lord you serve and the Lady you marry.
A “real woman” is “the one who feeds herself”, who “covers all the needs in the household”, and who “doesn't go around asking from other people”. A “most respected woman” is someone who “doesn't need anything from other people. She just depends on herself. She is the one who struggles for everything that she needs”.
Genetics Suggest Modern Female Came First.
Female has its origin in Latin and comes from the Latin word “femella”, or “femina”, which of course means “woman”. Male, on the other hand, come from Old French “masle”, or as we know it in modern French “mâle”, that itself comes from the Latin word “masculus”, both of which mean “male human”.
Genesis 1–2 tells the story of God's creation of the world. On the first day, God created light in the darkness. On the second, He created the sky. Dry land and plants were created on the third day.
God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshipped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to mention that the ancient Israelites worshipped both Yahweh and Asherah.
Jehovah (/dʒɪˈhoʊvə/) is a Latinization of the Hebrew יְהֹוָה Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
Some claim that the woman in Genesis 1 was Lilith, with the woman in Genesis 2 being Eve. This is folklore, Genesis chapter 2 is a “closer look” at the creation of Adam and Eve as recorded in Genesis chapter 1. Another way to view it is that Genesis 1 is a summary, Genesis 2 extrapolates on the summary.
There is no mention of Lilith in the Bible. The name Lilith is a part of Jewish folklore and often means demon. When we first meet Mary Magdalene in the Bible, this is what it says in Luke 8, 1 After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God.
They find Lilith at the Red Sea and implore her to return to Adam. Still fuming, she says, "I will not stay with that man and be treated as an inferior person." (Yes, Lilith was the first feminist). God agrees with Lilith and then creates Eve as Adam's second wife.
The first person to die is Abel at the hands of his brother, which is also the first time that blood is mentioned in the Bible (4:10–11).
The first human ancestors appeared between five million and seven million years ago, probably when some apelike creatures in Africa began to walk habitually on two legs. They were flaking crude stone tools by 2.5 million years ago. Then some of them spread from Africa into Asia and Europe after two million years ago.
Humans first evolved in Africa, and much of human evolution occurred on that continent. The fossils of early humans who lived between 6 and 2 million years ago come entirely from Africa.