Adam, the Ascended עלה Master אד in Genesis 2:6

When I first analyzed the Hebrew text of Genesis 2:6, I accepted the translation of ad אד as ‘mist’, ignoring the fact that Brown-Driver-Briggs admits that the meaning is dubious. I believed the experts, that it is not connected to adam אדם, admh אדמה, or addon אדון, although in hindsight it is obvious these words are connected. Case-in-point, if we take the experts opinion as a fact, it becomes near impossible to see the real meaning of key words!

Master אד

When we translate אד based on its Hebrew letters ad, it is obviously related to adm אדם (Strong’s H120 & 121), the mem ם suffix indicates plural, and to admh אדמה (Strong’s H127), the he ה suffix that indicates movement towards *. The translation of these words as ‘mist’, ‘man’ and ‘ground’ respectively, hides the connection, most certainly on purpose. (* In A Hebrew & Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament p. 343, Dr. Fuerst states ה is “an enclitic particle (He local), the most frequent and most usual one to denote direction towards a thing . . .”)

Most importantly, adwn אדון (Strong’s H113) that means ‘lord, master, owner’, is a diminutive form of ad אד, revealing that ‘a master’, not ‘a mist’, ascended עלה from out of מן the earth הארץ in Gen 2:6.

Ascended עלה

The Hebrew עלה (Strong’s H5927 888 occurrences) translated ‘went up’ in KJV, ‘used to rise’ in NASB, ‘welled up’ in NET Bible, as a verb means ‘to ascend’, the same form as עלה (Strong’s H5930 289 occurrences) that means ‘burnt offering’, but could mean ‘ascend’ in Jer 19:5 “. . . to burn sons of them in fire ascend עלות to Baal . . .”. The same form as עלה (Strong’s H5929 18 occurrences) that is translated ‘leaf, branches, leaves’, to disguise the fact that Adam and Eve ‘weave תפר stairs for ascension עלה” in Gen 3:7. (Strong’s H8609 תפר is used of ‘weaving magic’ in Ezekiel 13:18, but translated ‘to the women who sew’ in KJV, to which NASB adds ‘[magic]’.)

Although experts claim עלה (Strong’s H5927) is from a primitive root, it is often found in the form על revealing it as the source. The Hebrew על (Strong’s H5921 5778 occurrences) means ‘above, over, against’, or ‘the top, the highest (of Yahweh), aloft’, or ‘above, high’ (Strong’s H5920 4 occurrences), or ‘yoke’ (Strong’s H5923 40 occurrences), and in many cases is found with the he suffix that indicates movement towards *. (* See note above.)

We see how Strong’s misleads us, in the scattered classification of these words based on vowel points that were not part of the inspired text, but were added by the Masoretes around the 10^th century AD. The English translation of the Genesis 2 – 3 supports the lie that Eden was a paradise, and Adam and Eve were perfect until Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and bad in Gen 3:1 – 6, when Ezekiel 28 reveals that Adam became Satan’s prince, making him king, Ezekiel 31:4 describes how Adam became lofty from the waters of the deep, and Paul states “by Adam came death . . . in Adam all die” in 1 Cor 15:21 – 22, “the first Adam became a living soul . . . is from the earth” in 1 Cor 15:45 -47. Only by studying the Hebrew text without vowels can we understand what happened in the garden of Eden, which will help us understand the situation we find ourselves in today.

Another way Strong’s misleads us is by categorizing על differently based on the prefix beth ב, mem מ, nun נ, or taw מ, covering up the connection between the ‘ascension’ עלה (Strong’s H5927) in Gen 2:6, and baal בעל which is used of ‘husbands, marriage’ (Strong’s H1166 and 1167) or foreign gods (Strong’s H1168), and ‘stairs, ascent’ (Strong’s H4608 and H4609), and the ‘channels’ עלתיה (Strong’s H8585) through which the waters of the abyss were “sent out שלחה against אל all כל trees of עצי the field השדה” in Ezek 31:4, and ‘a sandal’ (Strong’s H5275) which symbolizes dominion and oppression.

Adam “ascended stairs עלה from out of מן the earth הארץ and the made drink שקה union with את all כל presence of פני the ground האדמה” in Gen 2:6. After this, Yahweh formed Adam dust from out of the ground in Gen 2:7, which was when he became perishable, as Paul indicates in contrasting the first Adam with Yahshua, the last Adam in 1 Cor 15:42 – 49.