Genesis 2:23

23. This is now bone Hebrews, This the time bone of my bones, etc. הפעם , the time, is here equivalent to the adverb now. Comp . Genesis 30:20. The words are an exclamation, and indicate the joyful surprise with which he recognises this time, after having looked hitherto repeatedly among the lower animals in vain, a suitable companion for himself .

Shall be called Woman He gives her at once her proper name, and he does it by means of the same deep insight into her nature as that by which he named the living creatures of Paradise . Thus now has the sacred writer completed a fuller description of the creation of man, male and female, than it was his design to give in the previous section, Genesis 1:27. That was creation, this formation. See above on Genesis 2:7. On the proper name of the woman, see Genesis 3:20.