One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Adam. Every Adam in the Bible
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Adam
אָדָםἈδάμ
Adam, the first man created by God, sinned and brought death into the world, but through Christ, the last Adam, came life and resurrection.
- verses
- 27
- first named
- Genesis 2:19
- last named
- Jude 1:14
- period
- before the Flood
- tribe
- Early Patriarch
Description
Who was Adam?
Adam was the first man, created by God on the sixth day of creation (Gen.1.26-27). He was formed from the dust of the ground, and God breathed life into him, making him a living being (Gen.2.7). God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden to tend and keep it, and He created Eve, the first woman, from Adam's rib as a companion for him (Gen.2.15-25).
God allowed Adam to eat from any tree in the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, warning that eating from this tree would lead to death (Gen.2.16-17). However, Adam and Eve were tempted by the serpent and disobeyed God, eating the forbidden fruit (Gen.3.1-6). As a consequence, they were expelled from the Garden of Eden and subjected to death, pain, and hardship (Gen.3.16-24).
After the fall, Adam and Eve had several children, including Cain, Abel, and Seth (Gen.4.1-2, 25). Adam lived for 930 years and died (Gen.5.5), but his legacy as the first man and the progenitor of the human race continued throughout the Bible.
In the New Testament, Adam is contrasted with Christ, who is referred to as the "last Adam" (1Co.15.45). While Adam's disobedience brought sin and death into the world, Christ's obedience and sacrifice brought righteousness and life (Rom.5.12-21). The apostle Paul teaches that all people die because of their connection to Adam, but those who are in Christ will be made alive at the resurrection (1Co.15.22).
Adam's creation, fall, and redemption through Christ are central themes in the biblical narrative, highlighting God's plan to restore humanity's relationship with Him and the ultimate victory over sin and death through Jesus Christ.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 14 are drawn. All 14 are listed below.
Ancestor of
Father of
- Abelregistry, no verse
- Cainregistry, no verse
- SethregistryGenesis 5:3Genesis 5:4Luke 3:38
Partner of
- Everegistry, no verse
Sibling of
- Everegistry, no verse
Stands in the same events as
- Eve4 events
- Seth2 events
- Israel1 event
- Moses1 event
- Death1 event
- Making1 event
- Covenant1 event
- Tree1 event
- Bird1 event
- Beast1 event
- Livestock1 event
- Fear1 event
and 3 more, ordered by how many events they share.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
Not read yet
The pattern
Where Adam is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
27 verses across 10 of 66 books; 56 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (16), Deuteronomy (1), 1 Chronicles (1), Job (1), Hosea (1), Luke (1), Romans (1), 1 Corinthians (2), 1 Timothy (2) and Jude (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 27, across 10 books. The name is written 31 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Genesis 2Adam names the livestock, birds, and beasts, then receives the woman made from his rib.
- Genesis 3Adam ate the fruit his wife gave him, hid from the LORD God, answered the questions, received the sentence of toil and dust, and was driven from Eden.
- Genesis 4Adam had relations with Eve and later became Seth’s father.
- Genesis 5Adam was created in God’s likeness, fathered Seth, had other sons and daughters, and lived 930 years before he died.
- Hosea 6Adam is named as the pattern of one who transgressed the covenant.
- Romans 5Adam’s trespass brings sin, condemnation, and death into the chapter’s great comparison.
- 1 Corinthians 15Adam is named as the man through whom death came, in contrast with Christ, through whom the dead are made alive.
- 1 Timothy 2Adam was formed first.
1 more chapter, from Jude 1 to Jude 1
Sources