Who named Adam?
It was mentioned Adam named Eve in Genesis 3, but the Bible said God allowed the man to name all living creatures, did that include himself?
Genesis 3:1 - 24
ESV - 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'? 2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden.
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Tim Maas
Supporter
By my understanding of Hebrew (and as indicated in the Hebrew text of Genesis 5:2), at the time of creation, God applied the name "Adam" (used as a collective noun with a definite article) to all of humanity as an entire group, including both males and females (as in "the people"). The first recorded use of "Adam" without an article as a distinctly male given name applying to only one person (in the same sense that we would use it) occurred in Genesis 5:3 in connection with the birth of Adam's third recorded son Seth.
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