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I will make a helper suitable for him.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/genesis/2.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/genesis/2.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/genesis/2.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/genesis/2.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And the LORD God said, <i>It is</i> not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/genesis/2.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And the LORD God said, “<i>It is</i> not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/genesis/2.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/genesis/2.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Then the LORD God said, &#8220It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/genesis/2.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/genesis/2.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Then Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/genesis/2.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Now the LORD God said, “It is not good (beneficial) for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper [one who balances him—a counterpart who is] suitable <i>and</i> complementary for him.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/genesis/2.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding to him.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/genesis/2.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Then the LORD God said, &#8220It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/genesis/2.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/genesis/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The LORD God said, "It isn't good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable partner for him." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/genesis/2.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/genesis/2.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/genesis/2.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/genesis/2.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Later, the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make the woman to be an authority corresponding to him." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/genesis/2.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/genesis/2.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />And God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/genesis/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him a help meet for him.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/genesis/2.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/genesis/2.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/genesis/2.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And YHWH God says, “[It is] not good for the man to be alone; I make him a helper as his counterpart.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/genesis/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Jehovah God saith, 'Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper -- as his counterpart.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/genesis/2.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And Jehovah God will say, It is not good for man to be alone; I will make for him a help as before him.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/genesis/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/genesis/2.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />The Lord God also said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let us make a helper for him similar to himself.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/genesis/2.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />The LORD God said: It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suited to him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/genesis/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.”<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/genesis/2.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Then the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper who is like him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/genesis/2.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And LORD JEHOVAH God said, “It is not good for Adam to be alone. I shall make a helper for him like himself.”<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/genesis/2.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And the LORD God said: 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/genesis/2.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And the Lord God said, <i>It is</i> not good that the man should be alone, let us make for him a help suitable to him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/2-18.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ehevn8iSgc?start=436" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/genesis/2.htm">Man and Woman in the Garden</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">17</span>but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.” <span class="reftext">18</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">The LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·hîm (N-mp) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">God</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: way·yō·mer (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">also said,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō- (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">“It is not</a> <a href="/hebrew/2896.htm" title="2896: ṭō·wḇ (Adj-ms) -- Pleasant, agreeable, good.">good</a> <a href="/hebrew/120.htm" title="120: hā·’ā·ḏām (Art:: N-ms) -- Man, mankind. From 'adam; ruddy i.e. A human being.">for the man</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: hĕ·yō·wṯ (V-Qal-Inf) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">to be</a> <a href="/hebrew/905.htm" title="905: lə·ḇad·dōw (Prep-l:: N-msc:: 3ms) -- Separation, a part. ">alone.</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ’e·‘ĕ·śeh- (V-Qal-Imperf-1cs) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">I will make</a> <a href="/hebrew/lō (Prep:: 3ms) -- ">for him</a> <a href="/hebrew/5048.htm" title="5048: kə·neḡ·dōw (Prep-k:: 3ms) -- From nagad; a front, i.e. Part opposite; specifically a counterpart, or mate; usually over against or before.">a suitable</a> <a href="/hebrew/5828.htm" title="5828: ‘ê·zer (N-ms) -- A help, helper. From azar; aid.">helper.”</a> </span><span class="reftext">19</span>And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ecclesiastes/4-9.htm">Ecclesiastes 4:9-12</a></span><br />Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. / For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to help him up! / Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-9.htm">1 Corinthians 11:9</a></span><br />Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/5-22.htm">Ephesians 5:22-33</a></span><br />Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. / For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. / Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/18-22.htm">Proverbs 18:22</a></span><br />He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_peter/3-7.htm">1 Peter 3:7</a></span><br />Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-2.htm">1 Corinthians 7:2</a></span><br />But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/19-4.htm">Matthew 19:4-6</a></span><br />Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ / and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? / So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/10-6.htm">Mark 10:6-9</a></span><br />However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ / ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, / and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_timothy/2-13.htm">1 Timothy 2:13</a></span><br />For Adam was formed first, and then Eve.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/colossians/3-18.htm">Colossians 3:18-19</a></span><br />Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. / Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-11.htm">1 Corinthians 11:11-12</a></span><br />In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. / For just as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-10.htm">1 Corinthians 7:10-11</a></span><br />To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. / But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/2-14.htm">Malachi 2:14-16</a></span><br />Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. / Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth. / “For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ruth/1-9.htm">Ruth 1:9</a></span><br />May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/songs/4-9.htm">Song of Solomon 4:9-10</a></span><br />You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck. / How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.</p><p class="hdg">good.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/1-31.htm">Genesis 1:31</a></b></br> And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, <i>it was</i> very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/3-12.htm">Genesis 3:12</a></b></br> And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest <i>to be</i> with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ruth/3-1.htm">Ruth 3:1</a></b></br> Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?</p><p class="hdg">I will.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/3-12.htm">Genesis 3:12</a></b></br> And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest <i>to be</i> with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_corinthians/11-7.htm">1 Corinthians 11:7-12</a></b></br> For a man indeed ought not to cover <i>his</i> head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_timothy/2-11.htm">1 Timothy 2:11-13</a></b></br> Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection… </p><p class="hdg">meet for him.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/revelation/15-4.htm">Alone</a> <a href="/genesis/2-20.htm">Counterpart</a> <a href="/genesis/2-16.htm">Elohim</a> <a href="/hebrews/12-10.htm">Fit</a> <a href="/genesis/2-17.htm">Good</a> <a href="/revelation/12-16.htm">Help</a> <a href="/1_john/2-1.htm">Helper</a> <a href="/genesis/2-20.htm">Helpmate</a> <a href="/revelation/21-2.htm">Meet</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-7.htm">Suitable</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/7-1.htm">Alone</a> <a href="/genesis/2-20.htm">Counterpart</a> <a href="/genesis/2-21.htm">Elohim</a> <a href="/genesis/2-20.htm">Fit</a> <a href="/genesis/3-5.htm">Good</a> <a href="/genesis/2-20.htm">Help</a> <a href="/genesis/2-20.htm">Helper</a> <a href="/genesis/2-20.htm">Helpmate</a> <a href="/genesis/2-20.htm">Meet</a> <a href="/genesis/2-20.htm">Suitable</a><div class="vheading2">Genesis 2</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/2-1.htm">The first Sabbath.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/2-4.htm">Further details concerning the manner of creation.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/2-8.htm">The planting of the garden of Eden, and its situation;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/2-15.htm">man is placed in it; and the tree of knowledge forbidden.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">18. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/2-18.htm">The animals are named by Adam.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">21. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/2-21.htm">The making of woman, and the institution of marriage.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/genesis/2.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/genesis/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/genesis/2.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>The LORD God also said</b><br>This phrase emphasizes the direct communication from God, highlighting His active role in creation and His ongoing relationship with humanity. It reflects God's authority and intentionality in His actions. The use of "LORD God" combines the covenant name Yahweh with Elohim, underscoring both His personal and powerful nature.<p><b>It is not good for the man to be alone.</b><br>This statement marks the first time in the creation narrative that something is described as "not good," contrasting with the repeated declarations of goodness in <a href="/genesis/1.htm">Genesis 1</a>. It underscores the importance of community and relationship, reflecting the relational nature of God Himself. This phrase sets the stage for the creation of woman, emphasizing the necessity of companionship and partnership in fulfilling God's purposes.<p><b>I will make for him a suitable helper.</b><br>The term "helper" (Hebrew: ezer) does not imply inferiority but rather denotes a complementary partner. In other biblical contexts, "ezer" is used to describe God as a helper to Israel, indicating strength and support. The word "suitable" (Hebrew: kenegdo) suggests a counterpart who corresponds to the man, highlighting equality and mutuality. This creation of woman prefigures the unity and interdependence seen in the body of Christ, as described in the New Testament.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_lord_god.htm">The LORD God</a></b><br>The Creator, who is actively involved in the creation and care of humanity. In this verse, He recognizes a need in His creation and takes steps to address it.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_man.htm">The Man (Adam)</a></b><br>The first human created by God, living in the Garden of Eden. At this point, he is alone without a human companion.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_garden_of_eden.htm">The Garden of Eden</a></b><br>The perfect environment created by God for man to live in, filled with all that is necessary for life and sustenance.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_creation_of_woman.htm">The Creation of Woman</a></b><br>This event is foreshadowed in this verse, where God plans to create a "suitable helper" for Adam, leading to the creation of Eve.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_community.htm">The Importance of Community</a></b><br>God designed humans for relationships and community. Isolation is not part of His plan for us, and we should seek to build meaningful connections with others.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_a_helper.htm">The Role of a Helper</a></b><br>The term "helper" (Hebrew: "ezer") does not imply inferiority but rather a complementary partnership. In many instances, God Himself is described as a "helper" to His people.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_provision.htm">God's Provision</a></b><br>Just as God provided a suitable helper for Adam, He knows our needs and provides for us in His perfect timing and way.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/m/marriage_as_a_divine_institution.htm">Marriage as a Divine Institution</a></b><br>This verse lays the foundation for the institution of marriage, highlighting its divine origin and purpose in companionship and mutual support.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/reflecting_god's_image.htm">Reflecting God's Image</a></b><br>In relationships, especially marriage, we reflect the relational nature of God, who exists in a perfect community as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_genesis_2.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Genesis 2</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/bible's_view_on_toxic_relationships.htm">What does the Bible say about toxic relationships?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/biblical_roles_of_husbands_and_wives.htm">What are the biblical roles of husbands and wives?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/correct_term__wife,_help_meet,_or_mate.htm">What is the correct term: wife, help meet, or help mate?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_can_i_recognize_my_perfect_spouse.htm">How can I recognize my perfect spouse?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/genesis/2.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(18) <span class= "bld">It is not good . . . --</span>In these words we have the Divine appointment of marriage, and also the declaration that the female is subsequent in order of production to the male, and formed from him. In <a href="/genesis/1-27.htm" title="So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.">Genesis 1:27</a>; <a href="/genesis/5-2.htm" title="Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.">Genesis 5:2</a>, the creation of male and female is represented as having been simultaneous. She is described as "a help meet for him:" Heb., <span class= "ital">a help as his front, </span>his reflected image, or, as the Syriac translates it, <span class= "ital">a helper similar to him. </span>The happiness of marriage is based, not upon the woman being just the same thing as the man, but upon her being one in whom he sees his image and counterpart.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/genesis/2.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 18.</span> - In anticipation of the ensuing narrative of the temptation and the fall, the historian, having depicted man's settlement in Eden, advances to complete his <span class="accented">dramatis personae</span> by the introduction upon the scene of the animals and woman. In the preliminary creation record (7-27) it is simply stated that God created man, male and female; there is a complete absence of details as to the Divine <span class="accented">modus operandi</span> in the execution of these, his last and greatest works. It is one object, among others, of the second portion of the history to supply those details. With regard to man (Adam), an account of his formation, at once minute and exhaustive, has been given in the preceding verses (7-17); now, with like attention to antecedent and concomitant circumstances and events, the sacred penman adds a description of the time, reason, manner, and result of the formation of woman. <span class="cmt_word">And the Lord God said, It is not good for man to be alone.</span> While the animals were produced either in swarms (as the fishes) or in pairs (as the birds and beasts), man was created as an individual; his partner, by a subsequent operation of creative power, being produced from himself. With the wild phantasies and gross speculations of some theosophists, as to whether, prior to the creation of Eve, Adam was androgynic (Bohme), or simply <span class="accented">vir</span> in <span class="accented">potentia</span>, out of which state he passed the moment the woman stood by his side (Ziegler), a devout exegesis is not required to intermeddle. Neither is it needful to wonder how God should pronounce that to be not good which he had previously (<a href="/genesis/1-31.htm">Genesis 1:31</a>) affirmed was good. The Divine judgment of which the preceding chapter speaks was expressed at the completion of man's creation; this, while that creation was in progress. For the new-made man to have been left without a partner would, in the estimation of Jehovah Elohim, have been for him a condition of being which, if not necessarily bad in itself, yet, considering his intellectual and social nature, "would eventually have passed over from the negative not good, or a manifest want, into the positive not good, or a hurtful impropriety"' (Lange). "It was not good for man to be alone; not, as certain foolish Rabbis conceited, lest he should imagine himself to be the lord of the world, or as though no man could live without a woman, which is contrary to Scripture; but in respect of <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> mutual society and comfort, <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> the propagation of the race, <p><span class="note_emph">(3)</span> the increase and generation of the Church of God, and . . . <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/genesis/2-18.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">The LORD</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">God</span><br /><span class="heb">אֱלֹהִ֔ים</span> <span class="translit">(’ĕ·lō·hîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> </span><span class="str2">gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative</span><br /><br /><span class="word">also said,</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙</span> <span class="translit">(way·yō·mer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> </span><span class="str2">To utter, say</span><br /><br /><span class="word">“[It is] not</span><br /><span class="heb">לֹא־</span> <span class="translit">(lō-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">good</span><br /><span class="heb">ט֛וֹב</span> <span class="translit">(ṭō·wḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2896.htm">Strong's 2896: </a> </span><span class="str2">Pleasant, agreeable, good</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for the man</span><br /><span class="heb">הָֽאָדָ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ā·ḏām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_120.htm">Strong's 120: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ruddy, a human being</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to be</span><br /><span class="heb">הֱי֥וֹת</span> <span class="translit">(hĕ·yō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fall out, come to pass, become, be</span><br /><br /><span class="word">alone.</span><br /><span class="heb">לְבַדּ֑וֹ</span> <span class="translit">(lə·ḇad·dōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_905.htm">Strong's 905: </a> </span><span class="str2">Separation, a part of the body, branch of a, tree, bar for, carrying, chief of</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I will make</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶֽעֱשֶׂהּ־</span> <span class="translit">(’e·‘ĕ·śeh-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for him</span><br /><span class="heb">לּ֥וֹ‪‬</span> <span class="translit">(lōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> </span><span class="str2"></span><br /><br /><span class="word">a suitable</span><br /><span class="heb">כְּנֶגְדּֽוֹ׃</span> <span class="translit">(kə·neḡ·dōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5048.htm">Strong's 5048: </a> </span><span class="str2">A front, part opposite, a counterpart, mate, over against, before</span><br /><br /><span class="word">helper.”</span><br /><span class="heb">עֵ֖זֶר</span> <span class="translit">(‘ê·zer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5828.htm">Strong's 5828: </a> </span><span class="str2">A help, helper</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/2-18.htm">Genesis 2:18 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/2-18.htm">Genesis 2:18 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/2-18.htm">Genesis 2:18 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/2-18.htm">Genesis 2:18 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/genesis/2-18.htm">Genesis 2:18 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/2-18.htm">Genesis 2:18 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/2-18.htm">Genesis 2:18 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/2-18.htm">Genesis 2:18 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/2-18.htm">Genesis 2:18 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/genesis/2-18.htm">Genesis 2:18 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/genesis/2-18.htm">OT Law: Genesis 2:18 Yahweh God said It is not good (Gen. 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