The Male and The Female

Male and Female are generic terms used even for animals but when we relate it to man and his wife an amazing mystery unfolds which I have tried to jot down in this short note.

Gen1:26 Then Elohim said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

Gen1:27 And Elohim created man in His own image, in the image of Elohim He created him; male and female He created them.

Male: The Hebrew word is ‘zakar’ זכר which also means ‘Remembrance/Memorial’

Female: The Hebrew word is ‘naqabah’ נקבה which broken down into has the root words ‘naqab’ נקב which means ‘pierced’, ‘bah’ בה which is an empty container and is a root word in ‘bohu’ which means void, ‘nab’ נב which means ‘prophecy’ & ‘qab’ קב a measure of capacity.

While the words are generic and even used for the animal kind, however, its usage for man and his woman is unique and significant because the woman was taken out of the man’s side and the flesh closed up. Hence, the woman is covered and counted in her man.

Shaul the emissary ties this to the gadol (great) mystery of Mashiyach and his bride in Eph 5:30-32 as we are of His flesh and His bones.

“Let US” “Our image’’ & “Our Likeness is Yahuah in Himself showing the counsel of His will in showing that He is ‘echad’ in the image He came into from invisibility and then made the man in His image and likeness.

Col1:15 He is the image of the invisible Elohim, the firstborn of all creation.

Image: tsalam צלם has the root word ‘tsal’ צל which means ‘shadow’

Likeness:  damuth דמות has the root words ‘dam’ דם which means ‘blood’ and ‘muth’ מות  which means death.

Hence, man was made in the shadow/type of blood likeness death of Mashiyach as He is the ‘tsalam/image’ of the invisible Aluahym. Rom 5:14 says that Adam was a type of Him (Mashiyach) who was to come. Hence, Adam held in himself the earthy pattern which made way to the heavenly pattern. Since, the woman is from the man, the image and blood likeness is the same as the man and is bearing the same typology. The only thing required of her is that each time she appears in the Creators presence she had to bear the headship of her husband over her head as she was taken out from the man termed as Adam. Yahusha is termed as the ‘last Adam’ who is the life giving Ruach in 1Cor15:45 and hence, we are under the headship of our husband and maker Yahusha ha Mashiyach.

He is before all things and by Him all things consists. Scripture renders him as ‘first-born over-all creation’, ‘beginning of creation of Aluahym’, ‘first fruits’, as He falls in line as the ‘Alaph’ i.e., the first in order and He is the ‘last Adam’ the last in order from the sense of transitioning the earthly pattern into Himself by making the man and the woman whole in Him. Hence, He is termed as the Alaph Tau, Rishon Acharon (First and the Last). If you don’t see this, you will never understand why Yahuah called himself as the ‘First and the Last’

Isa44:6 Thus says Yahuah, the King of Yisra’El and his Redeemer, Yahuah of hosts: I am the first/rishon and I am the last/acharon, and there is no Elohim besides Me.

Now when we look at the terms ‘Male & Female’ in Hebrew we can see that the zakar/male  זכרis the one to be remembered (as zakar also means remember/memorial) by His female/naqabah     נקבה  who was pierced/naqab נקב , where she finds her space in bah/בה (an empty container) from where she was taken in a measure of capacity/qab קב  concealed in prophecy/nab.

Gen5:1 This is the scroll of the generations of Adam. In the day that Elohim created man, He made him in the likeness of Elohim

Gen5:2 He created them male/zakar זכר and female/naqabah נקבה, and He blessed them and called their name ADAM in the day when they were created.

Genesis 5 shows us the scroll of generations of Adam, the beginning of the book or record showing us that Yahuah recorded by decree the counsel of His will of placing the spiritual man/heavenly man pattern in the physical and named them ADAM. Hence, the physical has to make way to the heavenly.

Gen 5:3 When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he fathered a son in his own likeness/damuth דמות , according to his image/tsalam צלם, and named his name Seth.

Gen5:4 Then the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were eight hundred years, and he fathered sons and daughters.

While Adam fathered sons and daughters and so did the other descendants where the sons and daughters didn’t find their way or names into the scroll of generations, the scroll of generations records ‘Seth’ to be in his own ‘blood likeness’ and ‘shadow’. A record made of the elect man in the book of life. The name ‘Seth’ means ‘compensated/substituted’. While traditionalists would see this as substituted for Abel who was killed by Qayin, the ‘scroll of generations’ records it as he is the one who continues the typology that Adam himself bore as the type of Him who was to come.

Jude1:14 It was also about these men that Chanok (Enoch) in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied of them, saying, Behold, Yahuah came with His myriads of His set apart ones,

The 7 are the 7,000 years which is the Day of Rest where the complete transition takes place in Mashiyach. Not all transition, only those in the scroll of the generations who carry on the typology.

Adam: Red/Ruddy

Abel: we will skip him as he was killed though he bore the typology, but he had no successor to carry on the typology

Seth: substituted

Enosh: mortal man

Qeynan: possession

Mahalal’El: praise of EL

Yared: descent

Chanok: dedicated

Chanok the 7^th from Adam prophesied of the coming of Yahusha

Red (water and blood)-substitute -mortal man-possessing the praise of Aluahym-in a descent to dedicate.

The first 7 names show us the coming of Mashiyach through the scroll of generations.

Luke 3:37 the son of Methushelach, the son of Chanok, the son of Yered, the son of Mahalal’El, the son of Qeynan,

Luke3:38 the son of Enosh, the son of Sheth, the son of Adam, the son of Elohim.

The genealogy to Mashiyach are the ones who bore His image and likeness held in mortality.

Adam is actually not a name and Adam means ‘Red’. The reason Adam was nameless is because he finds his pattern ending/completed in Mashiyach. Adam is a generic term used for ‘mankind’, ‘man and woman together’, ruby (red in colour) and makes way for Mashiyach.

The eighth was ‘Methuselah’  מתושלחwhose name has two root words ‘mortal/math’מת   and ‘shalach/sent’ שלח . Number eight in scripture is tied to ‘shemen/oil’  שמנand his name shows that mortality will be sent away-swallowed up by life and he died just before the flood. Just as the worlds which were destroyed by the floods, Kepha says the present earth and the heavens are reserved to be destroyed by fire. We will find favour in Mashiyach and hence, we conclude with

Red (water and blood)-substitute -mortal man-possessing the praise of Aluahym-in a descent to dedicate-sends away mortality.

2Tim1:10 but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Yahusha the Mashiyach, who abolished death and brought life which is not corruptibility to light through the good news.

Everything now is held in the container i.e. our bodies where our pierced One dwells transitioning us through His Ruach of prophesy into a full measure. And that is ‘NAQABAH’ translated as ‘FEMALE’.