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the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Literal Standard Version

1 Corinthians 11:8

for a man is not of a woman, but a woman [is] of a 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;
Darby Translation
For man is not of woman, but woman of 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

1Become followers of me, as I also [am] of Christ. 2And I praise you, brothers, that in all things you remember me, and according as I delivered to you, you keep the deliverances, 3and I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God. 4Every man praying or prophesying, having the head covered, dishonors his head, 5and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, dishonors her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven, 6for if a woman is not covered—then let her be shorn, and if [it is] a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven—let her be covered; 7for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man, 8for a man is not of a woman, but a woman [is] of a man,9for also was a man not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man; 10because of this the woman ought to have [a token of] authority on the head, because of the messengers;

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 two sons have been born to Eber; the name of the first [is] Peleg (for in his days the earth has been divided), and his brother's name [is] Joktan.
Genesis 10:32
These [are] families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, in their nations, and by these the nations have been parted in the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11:4
And they say, "Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower with its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth."
Genesis 11:9
therefore [one] has called its name Babel, for there YHWH has confused the language of all the earth, and from there YHWH has scattered them over the face of all the earth.
Genesis 49:7
Cursed [is] their anger, for [it is] fierce, || And their wrath, for [it is] sharp; I divide them in Jacob, || And I scatter them in Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:8
In the Most High causing nations to inherit, || In His separating sons of Adam—He sets up the borders of the peoples || By the number of the sons of God [[or sons of Israel]].
Luke 1:51
He did powerfully with His arm, || He scattered abroad the proud 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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