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1 | What was the first language of Adam/Eve? | Gen 11:1 | gubber | 8691 | ||
In Genesis we read in chp. 2:19-20 the first words of Adam in naming the animals...what was the language he used for communication? Later he and Eve spoke...what language did they speak? | ||||||
2 | What was the first language of Adam/Eve? | Gen 11:1 | userdoe213 | 8692 | ||
The following commentary on Genesis 11:1 is from Adam Clarke's Commentary On The Holy Bible. 1. "The whole earth was of one language." The "whole earth" - all mankind - "was of one language," in all liklihood the Hebrew; "and of one speech" - articulating the same words in the same way. It is generally supposed that, after the confusion mentioned in this chapter, the Hebrew language remained in the family of Heber. The proper names and their significations given in the Scripture seem incontestable evidences that the Hebrew language was the original language of the earth - the language in which God spake to man, and in which He gave the revelation of His will to Moses and the prophets." 2. In vs. 1, the words "language" and "speech" translated from the Hebrew means, "lip" and "words". 3. Thus, Adam and Eve must have spoken the Hebrew language. Adam thus used the Hebrew language to name the animals. Mike |
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3 | What was the first language of Adam/Eve? | Gen 11:1 | gubber | 8705 | ||
The communication (language) of Adam and Eve must have been a holy language, in that, they spoke with the serpent...who apparently could return communication (language) to them...could have been a one specific holy language empowering nature to commune with humanity? I know thisprobably is a matter of unimportance but cvould there have been a language which "tied" all of humanity and nature together? Could Adam actual speak to animals (and animals to him) in direct understanding? It could have been at the Tower where language become confused and different...but in the beginning there was one perfect method of communication...the language of God...holy, perfect, eternal...I'm just trying to understand the "PERFECTNESS OF GOD" and how humanity has made communication so difficult...Sin has really "fouled up" a perfect Plan. |
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4 | What was the first language of Adam/Eve? | Gen 11:1 | Makarios | 8772 | ||
gubber, this is a very interesting question.. The Ryrie Study Bible states, "The unbridgeable gap between animal sounds and human language, as well as the statement of this verse that originally all men spoke the same language, are inexplicable by the theory of evolution." The Nelson NKJV comments, "The confusion of languages at Babel (11:1-9) marks the beginnings of racial, ethnic, cultural, and familial diversity. Yet in the Promised One, of whom Gen. 12:3 (see also 22:15-18) speaks, there will one day be an end to all divisiveness. The peoples of the earth will become the people of God. All the languages will speak together in praise of the Lamb (Rev. 5:8-14)." There is no mention or evidence that this could be Hebrew (this universal language), but it is interesting that this universal language was the same language that God taught Adam so that He could speak with him in the garden of Eden. Nolan |
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