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The Darby Translation

1 Corinthians 11:8

For man is not of woman, but woman of man.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Family;   Wife;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Men;   Women;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Garments;   Woman;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Husband;   Women;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of;   Eve;   Marriage;   Overseer;   Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Lord's Supper;   Worship of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Woman;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Dress;   Eve;   James, the General Epistle of;   Marriage;   Veil;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covering the Head;   Veil;   Woman;   1 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Paul the Apostle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Answer;   Clothes;   Interpretation;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hair;   Woman;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Veil;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adam in the New Testament;   Anthropology;   Beard;   Veil (1);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bareheadedness;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For man did not come from woman, but woman came from man.
King James Version (1611)
For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.
King James Version
For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.
English Standard Version
For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.
New American Standard Bible
For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man;
New Century Version
Man did not come from woman, but woman came from man.
Amplified Bible
For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man;
Legacy Standard Bible
For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man.
Berean Standard Bible
For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.
Contemporary English Version
It was the woman who was made from a man, and not the man who was made from a woman.
Complete Jewish Bible
For man was not made from woman, but woman from man;
Easy-to-Read Version
Man did not come from woman. Woman came from man.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.
George Lamsa Translation
For the man was not created from the woman; but the woman was created from the man.
Good News Translation
for man was not created from woman, but woman from man.
Lexham English Bible
For man is not from woman, but woman from man.
Literal Translation
for man is not of the woman, but woman of man;
American Standard Version
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man:
Bible in Basic English
For the man did not come from the woman, but the woman from the man.
Hebrew Names Version
For man is not from woman, but woman from man;
International Standard Version
For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;Genesis 2:21-22;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
For the man is not from woman, but the woman is from man.
Murdock Translation
For the man was not from the woman, but the woman from the man.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man:
English Revised Version
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man:
World English Bible
For man is not from woman, but woman from man;
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.
Weymouth's New Testament
Man does not take his origin from woman, but woman takes hers from man.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For a man is not of the womman, but the womman of the man.
Update Bible Version
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man:
Webster's Bible Translation
For the man is not from the woman, but the woman from the man.
New English Translation
For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.
New King James Version
For man is not from woman, but woman from man.
New Living Translation
For the first man didn't come from woman, but the first woman came from man.
New Life Bible
Man was not made from woman. Woman was made from man,
New Revised Standard
Indeed, man was not made from woman, but woman from man.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, man, is not, of woman, but, woman, of man;
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.
Revised Standard Version
(For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For the man is not of the woman but the woman of the ma.
Young's Literal Translation
for a man is not of a woman, but a woman [is] of a man,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.
Mace New Testament (1729)
for the man was not taken from the woman: but the woman from the man.
Simplified Cowboy Version
God didn't make a man from a woman, he made a woman from a man.

Contextual Overview

1 Be my imitators, even as *I* also [am] of Christ. 2 Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions. 3 But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head [is] the man, and the Christ's head God. 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having [anything] on his head, puts his head to shame. 5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved [woman]. 6 For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if [it be] shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered. 7 For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory. 8 For man is not of woman, but woman of man. 9 For also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man. 10 Therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head, on account of the angels.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 2:21, Genesis 2:22, 1 Timothy 2:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:27 - male Genesis 2:23 - Woman

Cross-References

Genesis 10:25
And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
Genesis 10:32
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. And from these came the distribution of the nations on the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which [may reach] to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:9
Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their anger, for it [was] violent; And their rage, for it [was] cruel! I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:8
When the Most High assigned to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
Luke 1:51
He has wrought strength with his arm; he has scattered haughty [ones] in the thought of their heart.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the man is not of the woman,.... In the present state of things, and according to the ordinary course of generation and propagation of mankind, man is of the woman, though not without the means of man; he is conceived in her, bore by her, and born of her; but the apostle respects the original formation of man, as he was immediately made by God out of the dust of the earth, before the woman was in being, and so not of her:

but the woman of the man; she was made out of his rib, and took both her name and nature from him; God was the author, and man the matter of her being; her original under God, is owing to him; and therefore as he was first in being, he must be superior to her: this serves to prove all that has been as yet said; as that man is the head of the woman, the woman is the glory of man, what he may glory in as being from him; and therefore there should be this difference in their appearance at public worship.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the man is not of the woman - The man was not formed from the woman.

But the woman of the man - From his side; Genesis 2:18, Genesis 2:22-23.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 11:8. For, the man is not of the woman — Bishop Pearce translates ου γαρ εστιν ανηρ εκ γυναικος, αλλα γυνη εξ ανδρος, thus: "For the man doth not BELONG to the woman, but the woman to the man." And vindicates this sense of εκ, by its use in 1 Corinthians 12:15. If the foot shall say, ουκ ειμι εκ του σωματος, I am not of the body, i.e. I do not belong to the body. He observes that as the verb εστιν is in the present tense, and will not allow that we should understand this verse of something that is past, γαρ, for, in the following verse, which is unnoticed by our translators, will have its full propriety and meaning, because it introduces a reason why the woman belongs to the man and not the man to the woman. His meaning is, that the man does not belong to the woman, as if she was the principal; but the woman belongs to the man in that view.


 
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