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Genesis 2:21

And Yahweh elohim was caused to fall, a death-stun96 upon the Red-one, and he is languid/weary, and he is taking one from his ribs/sides,97 and he is shutting up flesh below her.98

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shuts up…underneath her. Strong’s #5642, sagar, means “close or shut” as in closing a door or gate, and the very same construct used here (he shuts) is used in Genesis 7:16. Hebrew tachtenah. Strong’s #8478. This word has the feminine singular suffix, which is also a directional suffix. The word is sometimes translated “in its place” but means literally “underneath” and is also indicative of the belly from which the rib is taken. The picture is a riddle. Maybe Paul knows it, “but the Writing did shut together [sugkleió - enclose, shut together] the whole [Flesh] under sin, that the Announcement of trust of Salvation Anointed One may be given to those ones trusting [the rib?].” (Galatians 3:22 RBT)