Genesis 2:23
“And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
KJV
Read in Genesis 2Meaning
The exclamation celebrates shared humanity and kinship. The woman is recognized as neither animal nor subordinate species but as the man's own flesh-and-bone counterpart.
Read carefully
The Hebrew wordplay between ish and ishah is literary and relational; it should not be turned into an etymological claim about all language or used to erase the woman's distinct personhood.
Reflection
The first human response to the other is recognition: 'this one' belongs to the same human family. Difference is held inside profound commonality.