Genèse 2:23

23 Et Adam dit: Celle-ci enfin est os de mes os, et chair de ma chair. Celle-ci sera nommée femme (en hébreu Isha), car elle a été prise de l'homme (en hébreu Ish).

Genèse 2:23 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 2:23

And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones, and flesh
of my flesh
Of "his bones", because made out of a pair of his ribs, as some think, one on each side, and therefore expressed in the plural number, "and of his flesh", a part of which was taken with the rib; this Adam knew, either being awake while she was made, though asleep when the rib was taken out; or by divine revelation, by an impress of it on his mind; or it might have been declared to him in a dream, while asleep, when, being in an ecstasy or trance, this whole affair was represented unto him: and this was "now" done, just done, and would be done no more in like manner; "this time" ^F15, this once, as many render it; so it was, but hereafter the woman was to be produced in the way of generation, as man: she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man:
her name was "Ishah", because taken from "Ish", as "vira" in Latin from "vir", and "woman" in our language from "man".

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 (Meph taz) "hac vice", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Vatablus, so the Targum; (touto apax) , Symmachus & Theodotion; "hoc semel", Fagius.

Genèse 2:23 In-Context

21 Et l'Éternel Dieu fit tomber un profond sommeil sur Adam, qui s'endormit; et il prit une de ses côtes, et resserra la chair à sa place.

22 Et l'Éternel Dieu forma une femme de la côte qu'il avait prise d'Adam, et la fit venir vers Adam.

23 Et Adam dit: Celle-ci enfin est os de mes os, et chair de ma chair. Celle-ci sera nommée femme (en hébreu Isha), car elle a été prise de l'homme (en hébreu Ish).

24 C'est pourquoi l'homme laissera son père et sa mère, et s'attachera à sa femme, et ils seront une seule chair.

25 Or Adam et sa femme étaient tous deux nus, et ils n'en avaient point honte.