← Back
The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

PJ Gen1:27 :ואדמא דכר ונוקבא בגוונהון ברא יתהון‏ :
See the entire entry for gawən, gawnā n.m. color; kind

PJ Gen1:27 :דכר ונוקבא בגוונהון ברא יתהון‏ : He created them male and female by their kind
See the entire entry for gawən, gawnā n.m. color; kind

PJ Gen1:27 :שית מאה ושיתין וחמשא גידין‏ :
See the entire entry for gyāḏ, gyāḏā n.m. sinew, nerve

PJ Gen1:27 :ברא יתיה במאתן וארבעין ותמני איברין‏ : He created him with two hundred forty-eight organs
See the entire entry for maˀṯēn num. two hundred

PJ Gen1:27 :ואדמא דכר ונוקבא בגוונהון ברא יתהון‏ : He created Adam male and female by their kind
See the entire entry for ne/uqbā, ne/uqbəṯā n.f. female


It is probable that by the addition of the "by/in/with their kind" the author of PsJon is here explicitly rejecting the old Platonic idea that the original creation was as a single, bisexual creature, a position mentioned several times in Rabbinic literature, e.g. Bereshit Rabbah chapter 8.