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Adam

4003–3073 BC, 930 years traditional (Jones)

Red, a Babylonian word, the generic name for man, having the same meaning in the Hebrew and the Assyrian languages. It was the name given to the first man, whose creation, fall, and subsequent history and that of his descendants are detailed in the first book of Moses (Gen. 1:27-ch. 5). “God created man [Heb., Adam] in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” Adam was absolutely the first man whom God created.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Partner
Eve
Children
Cain, Abel, Seth
Born at
Eden
Tagged in
26 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children; a button shows the grandchildren. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Adam: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Stories

5 events in which Adam takes part, in order of the traditional chronology. Years are traditional (Jones).

  1. 4003 BCCreation of Adam and EveGen 2:4-25
  2. 4003 BCThe FallGen 3:1-24
  3. 4003 BCLifetime of AdamGen 5:3-5
  4. 3873 BCBirth of SethGen 4:25–5:3; 1 Chr 1:1; Luke 3:38
  5. 3073 BCDeath of AdamGen 5:5

Places

Places named in the same verses as Adam, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. location unknown: Eden0

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 4004–2841 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around this life, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Adam’s life beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Adam in 26 tagged verses across 9 books.

Select a book to read its verses.

  1. Genesis16
  2. Deuteronomy1
  3. 1 Chronicles1
  4. Job1
  5. Luke1
  6. Romans1
  7. 1 Corinthians2
  8. 1 Timothy2
  9. Jude1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBAdam 23
KJVAdam 31
ASVAdam 21

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 26 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Genesis16 verses
  1. 2:19

    And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

  2. 2:20

    The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.

  3. 2:21

    So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.

  4. 2:23

    And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”

  5. 3:8

    Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

  6. 3:9

    But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”

  7. 3:17

    And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

  8. 3:20

    And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.

  9. 3:21

    And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.

  10. 4:1

    And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man,” she said.

  11. 4:25

    And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

  12. 5:1

    This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.

  13. 5:2

    Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”

  14. 5:3

    When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.

  15. 5:4

    And after he had become the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

  16. 5:5

    So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

Deuteronomy1 verse
  1. 32:8

    When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

1 Chronicles1 verse
  1. 1:1

    Adam, Seth, Enosh,

Job1 verse
  1. 31:33

    if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

Luke1 verse
  1. 3:38

    the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

Romans1 verse
  1. 5:14

    Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.

1 Corinthians2 verses
  1. 15:22

    For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

  2. 15:45

    So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

1 Timothy2 verses
  1. 2:13

    For Adam was formed first, and then Eve.

  2. 2:14

    And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was deceived and fell into transgression.

Jude1 verse
  1. 1:14

    Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

Red, a Babylonian word, the generic name for man, having the same meaning in the Hebrew and the Assyrian languages. It was the name given to the first man, whose creation, fall, and subsequent history and that of his descendants are detailed in the first book of Moses (Gen. 1:27-ch. 5). “God created man [Heb., Adam] in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

Adam was absolutely the first man whom God created. He was formed out of the dust of the earth (and hence his name), and God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and gave him dominion over all the lower creatures (Gen. 1:26; 2:7). He was placed after his creation in the Garden of Eden, to cultivate it, and to enjoy its fruits under this one prohibition: “Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

The first recorded act of Adam was his giving names to the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, which God brought to him for this end. Thereafter the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon him, and while in an unconscious state took one of his ribs, and closed up his flesh again; and of this rib he made a woman, whom he presented to him when he awoke. Adam received her as his wife, and said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” He called her Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

Being induced by the tempter in the form of a serpent to eat the forbidden fruit, Eve persuaded Adam, and he also did eat. Thus man fell, and brought upon himself and his posterity all the sad consequences of his transgression. The narrative of the Fall comprehends in it the great promise of a Deliverer (Gen. 3:15), the “first gospel” message to man. They were expelled from Eden, and at the east of the garden God placed a flame, which turned every way, to prevent access to the tree of life (Gen. 3). How long they were in Paradise is matter of mere conjecture.

Shortly after their expulsion Eve brought forth her first-born, and called him Cain. Although we have the names of only three of Adam’s sons, viz., Cain, Abel, and Seth, yet it is obvious that he had several sons and daughters (Gen. 5:4). He died aged 930 years.

Adam and Eve were the progenitors of the whole human race. Evidences of varied kinds are abundant in proving the unity of the human race. The investigations of science, altogether independent of historical evidence, lead to the conclusion that God “hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth” (Acts 17:26. Comp. Rom. 5:12-12; 1 Cor. 15:22-49).