Adam's rib

the word "adam" derives from the Hebrew wore "adamah" means "earth" in Hebrew. In telling how God made the adam from the adamah, the creation story says humans are from and of the humus. This "adam" is an earthling who is not yet either male or female (Genesis 2:7). Not until the lines of poetry near the end does the story use the Hebrew words "is" and "issah," expressing male and female sex difference. Thus, biblically, common humanity precedes sexual differentiation. Dennis Baron (Grammar and Gender). says that the phrase "Adam's rib" (as womankind's point of origin) should be put in quotation marks to show its dubiousness, and its use should be reserved for discussions of the term itself.