Genesis 2:21
כא וַיַּפֵּל יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהִים תַּרְדֵּמָה עַל־הָאָדָם וַיִּישָׁן וַיִּקַּח אַחַת מִצַּלְעֹתָיו וַיִּסְגֹּר בָּשָׂר תַּחְתֶּנָּה:
Transliteration: va-yapel **** elohim tardemah al-ha-adam va-yishan va-yiqach achat mi-tsalotayv va-yisgor basar tachtenah.
Translation: **** Gd caused a sleep to fall on the man and he slept and He took one of his ribs and closed the flesh below it.
Vocabulary in this lesson:
יַּפֵּל
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He caused to fall
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תַּרְדֵּמָה
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Sleep, trance
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יִּישָׁן
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He slept
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צַּלְעֹתָיו
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His ribs
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יִּסְגֹּר
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He closed
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בָּשָׂר
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Flesh, meat
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תַּחְתֶּנָּה
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Below them
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“He caused to fall” is the causative of nafal, to fall, a fairly common verb. As you can see, like many verbs with nun at the start of the root, the nun disappears in the future/aorist.
Tardemah is not a common word in the Hebrew Bible. The next chance you have of seeing it is in Genesis 15:12 in the episode about what Jews call The Covenant Between the Pieces.
“Below them” uses a personal ending with the preposition tachat which is part of an urban legend I discuss to death on the Fact-Checking page.
This verse has caused an urban legend that men have one rib less than women do. It’s not true. We all have 12 pairs.
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