Adam vs Ben - What's the difference?
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(Abrahamic religions) The first man and the progenitor of the human race.
* 1611 — 3:20
* 1667 — , Book VII
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* 1859 — , ch 1
* 1904 —
* 1933 — , Over the Garden Wall , Faber and Faber 1933, page 90 ("Boys' Names")
(figuratively) Original sin or human frailty.
(with'' second ''or last) Jesus Christ, whose sacrifice, in Christian theology, makes possible the forgiveness of Adam's original sin.
* 1611 — 15:45
* 1739 —
Designating a neoclassical style of furniture and architecture in the style of Robert and James Adam.
* 1936 , (HP Lovecraft), ‘The Haunter of the Dark’:
(Scotland, northern England) In, into.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 32:
Inner, interior.
(Scotland, Northern England) Ben-room: The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but).
A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben.
The winged seed of the ben tree.
The oil of the ben seed.
(usually, capitalised) Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames).
As a proper noun adam
is (label) adam (biblical figure).As an adverb ben is
well.adam
English
(wikipedia Adam)Proper noun
(s)- And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
- Say Goddess, what ensu’d when Raphael, / The affable Arch-Angel, had forewarn'd / Adam by dire example to beware / Apostasie,
- Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name; but the jet-black hair, made the more noticeable by its contrast with the light paper cap, and the keen glance of the dark eyes that shone from under strongly marked, prominent and mobile eyebrows, indicated a mixture of Celtic blood.
- Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam’s hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently important as a public character to justify this publication.
- What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird, / And Adam like the Lord's First Word,
- And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
- Second Adam from above,
Reinstate us in thy love.
- Inside were six-panelled doors, wide floor-boards, a curving colonial staircase, white Adam -period mantels, and a rear set of rooms three steps below the general level.
Derived terms
* Adam and Eve * Adamesque * Adamhood * Adamic, Adamical * Adamite * Adamitism * Adam's ale * * Adam's apple * Adam's flannel * Adam's morsel * Adam's needle * * Adam's wine * apple of Adam * (diminutive) * as old as Adam, old as Adam * co-Adamite * not know someone from Adam * Old Adam * pre-Adamite * since Adam was a boySee also
* Eve * * * Edom ----ben
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) ben, bene, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) ben, bene, variation of bin, .Preposition
(English prepositions)- And he was waving to me to creep in, so I just did and then just to skip ben the front and then in the lobby.