Génesis 2:19

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez

Formó, pues, Jehová Dios de la tierra toda bestia del campo, y toda ave de los cielos, y las trajo a Adán, para que viese cómo les había de llamar; y de la manera que Adán llamó a los animales vivientes, ése es su nombre.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Y el Señor Dios formó de la tierra todo animal del campo y toda ave del cielo, y los trajo al hombre para ver cómo los llamaría; y como el hombre llamó a cada ser viviente, ése fue su nombre.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Form�, pues, Jehov� Dios de la tierra toda bestia del campo, y toda ave de los cielos, y tr�jolas � Adam, para que viese c�mo les hab�a de llamar; y todo lo que Adam llam� � los animales vivientes, ese es su nombre.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Form�, pues, el SE�OR Dios de la tierra toda bestia del campo, y toda ave de los cielos, y las trajo a Ad�n, para que viese c�mo les hab�a de llamar; y todo lo que Ad�n llam� al alma viviente, es ese su nombre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And out: Genesis 1:20-25

brought: Genesis 2:22, Genesis 2:23, Genesis 1:26, Genesis 1:28, Genesis 6:20, Genesis 9:2, Psalms 8:4-8

Adam: or, the man, Genesis 2:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:25 - General Genesis 7:9 - General Psalms 50:10 - every

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air,.... Or "had formed them" e on the fifth and sixth days; and these were formed two and two, male and female, in order to continue their species; whereas man was made single, and had no companion of the same nature with him: and while in these circumstances, God

brought them unto Adam; or "to the man" f; either by the ministry of angels, or by a kind of instinct or impulse, which brought them to him of their own accord, as to the lord and proprietor of them, who, as soon as he was made, had the dominion of all the creatures given him; just as the creatures at the flood went in unto Noah in the ark; and as then, so now, all creatures, fowl and cattle, came, all but the fishes of the sea: and this was done

to see what he would call them; what names he would give to them; which as it was a trial of the wisdom of man, so a token of his dominion over the creatures, it being an instance of great knowledge of them to give them apt and suitable names, so as to distinguish one from another, and point at something in them that was natural to them, and made them different from each other; for this does not suppose any want of knowledge in God, as if he did this to know what man would do, he knew what names man would give them before he did; but that it might appear he had made one superior to them all in wisdom and power, and for his pleasure, use, and service; and therefore brings them to him, to put them into his hands, and give him authority over them; and being his own, to call them by what names he pleased:

and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof; it was always afterwards called by it, by him and his posterity, until the confusion of languages, and then every nation called them as they thought proper, everyone in their own language: and as there is a good deal of reason to believe, that the Hebrew language was the first and original language; or however that eastern language, of which the Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, are so many dialects; it was this that he spoke, and in it gave names to the creatures suitable to their nature, or agreeable to some property or other observed in them: and Bochart g has given us many instances of creatures in the Hebrew tongue, whose names answer to some character or another in them: some think this was done by inspiration; and Plato says, that it seemed to him that that nature was superior to human, that gave names to things; and that this was not the work of vain and foolish man, but the first names were appointed by the gods h; and so Cicero i asks, who was the first, which with Pythagoras was the highest wisdom, who imposed names on all things?

e ויצר "finxerat", Drusius. f אל האדם "ad ipsum hominem", Pagninus, Montanus. g Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 1. c. 9. p. 59, &c. h In Cratylo, apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 11. c. 6. p. 515. i Tusculan. Quaest. l. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Here, as in several previous instances Genesis 1:5; Genesis 2:4, Genesis 2:8-9, the narrative reverts to the earlier part of the sixth day. This is, therefore, another example of the connection according to thought overruling that according to time. The order of time, however, is restored, when we take in a sufficient portion of the narrative. We refer, therefore, to the fifth verse, which is the regulative sentence of the present passage. The second clause in the verse, however, which in the present case completes the thought in the mind of the writer, brings up the narrative to a point subsequent to that closing the preceding verse. The first two clauses, therefore, are to be combined into one; and when this is done, the order of time is observed.

Man has already become acquainted with his Maker. He has opened his eyes upon the trees of the garden, and learned to distinguish at least two of them by name. He is now to be introduced to the animal kingdom, with which he is connected by his physical nature, and of which he is the constituted lord. Not many hours or minutes before have they been called into existence. They are not yet, therefore, multiplied or scattered over the earth, and so do not require to be gathered for the purpose. The end of this introduction is said to be to see what he would call them. To name is to distinguish the nature of anything and do denote the thing by a sound bearing some analogy to its nature. To name is also the prerogative of the owner, superior, or head. Doubtless the animals instinctively distinguished man as their lord paramount, so far as his person and eye came within their actual observation. God had given man his first lesson in speech, when he caused him to hear and understand the spoken command. He now places him in a condition to put forth his naming power, and thereby go through the second lesson.

With the infant, the acquisition of language must be a gradual process, inasmuch as the vast multitude of words which constitute its vocabulary has to be heard one by one and noted in the memory. The infant is thus the passive recipient of a fully formed and long-established medium of converse. The first man, on the other hand, having received the conception of language, became himself the free and active inventor of the greatest part of its words. He accordingly discerns the kinds of animals, and gives each its appropriate name. The highly-excited powers of imagination and analogy break forth into utterance, even before he has anyone to hear and understand his words but the Creator himself.

This indicates to us a twofold use of language. First, it serves to register things and events in the apprehension and the memory. Man has a singular power of conferring with himself. This he carries on by means of language, in some form or other. He bears some resemblance to his Maker even in the complexity of his spiritual nature. He is at once speaker and hearer, and yet at the same time he is consciously one. Secondly, it is a medium of intelligent communication between spirits who cannot read another’s thoughts by immediate intuition. The first of these uses seems to have preceded the second in the case of Adam, who was the former of the first language. The reflecting reader can tell what varied powers of reason are involved in the use of language, and to what an extent the mind of man was developed, when he proceeded to name the several classes of birds and beasts. He was evidently suited for the highest enjoyments of social contact.

Among the trees in the garden God took the initiative, named the two that were conspicuous and essential to man’s well being, and uttered the primeval command. Adam has now made acquaintance with the animal world, and, profiting by the lesson of the garden, proceeds himself to exercise the naming power. The names he gives are thenceforth the permanent designations of the different species of living creatures that appeared before him. These names being derived from some prominent quality, were suited to be specific, or common to the class, and not special to the individual.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Genesis 2:19. Out of the ground, &c. — Concerning the formation of the different kinds of animals, see the preceding chapter.