{"id":11921,"date":"2025-12-10T15:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=11921"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:12:39","slug":"how-adams-rib-is-mistranslated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=11921","title":{"rendered":"How Adam&#8217;s &#8220;Rib&#8221; is Mistranslated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FN4pVp6lNJ0?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>You may have heard that in the Bible Eve was created from Adam&#8217;s &#8220;rib.&#8221;  As it turns out, the translation of the word &#8220;rib&#8221; from Hebrew to English may have been a little&#8230; off.   In the Hebrew text of the Bible, the word used to describe the body part taken from Adam to create Eve is &#8220;tsela.&#8221; While this word can be translated as &#8220;rib,&#8221; it more accurately means &#8220;side&#8221; or &#8220;part of the body.&#8221; This is supported by the fact that in all other instances where &#8220;tsela&#8221; appears in the Bible, it refers to a side or a part of something, rather than a literal rib. So, it&#8217;s possible that the word was mistranslated due to cultural biases or assumptions about gender roles in early translations of the Bible<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FN4pVp6lNJ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard that in the Bible Eve was created from Adam&#8217;s &#8220;rib.&#8221; As it turns out, the translation of the word &#8220;rib&#8221; from Hebrew to English may have been a little&#8230; off. In the Hebrew text of the Bible, the word used to describe the body part taken from Adam to create Eve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3102,1192,1194,1175,1186,1190,1185,1187,1191,1196,1176,1193,1183,1179,1181,1184,1182,1195,1188,1180,3104,1178,1177,1189,3103],"class_list":["post-11921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-videos","tag-adams","tag-bible-interpretation-and-meaning","tag-bible-quiz-for-adults","tag-bible-quiz-for-kids","tag-bible-study-for-beginners","tag-bible-study-group-discussion","tag-bible-study-lessons","tag-bible-study-topics","tag-bible-study-with-me","tag-bible-trivia-challenge","tag-bible-trivia-facts","tag-bible-trivia-questions-and-answers","tag-christian-habits","tag-christian-lifestyle-tips","tag-christian-motivation","tag-daily-christian-routine","tag-faith-based-living","tag-fun-bible-trivia-game","tag-how-to-study-the-bible","tag-living-as-a-christian","tag-mistranslated","tag-new-testament-trivia","tag-old-testament-quiz","tag-online-bible-study","tag-rib","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11923,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11921\/revisions\/11923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}