Adam

A man, before the Flood · Early Patriarch · named in 17 verses

the name means Red Easton's Bible Dictionary

Adam, the first man created by God, sinned and brought death into the world, but through Christ, the last Adam, came life and resurrection.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

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."

Easton's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 1897 — public domain, quoted in full and unedited.

Family

Partners Eve

Children Abel, Cain, Seth

Siblings Eve

From STEPBible's TIPNR genealogy data. A relationship the data marks uncertain is not shown here.

First named at Genesis 2:20.

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Verses that name Adam

Genesis 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.
Genesis 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.
Genesis 3:21 And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
Genesis 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.
Genesis 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.”
Genesis 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.
Genesis 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.
Genesis 5:4 And after he had become the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:5 So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.
1 Chronicles 1:1 Adam, Seth, Enosh,
Luke 3:38 the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
Romans 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 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15:45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
1 Timothy 2:13 For Adam was formed first, and then Eve.
1 Timothy 2:14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was deceived and fell into transgression.
Jude 1:14 Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones