גַּם־בְּנֵ֣י אָ֭דָם גַּם־בְּנֵי־אִ֑ישׁ יַ֝֗חַד עָשִׁ֥יר וְאֶבְיֽוֹן׃
귀천 빈부를 물론하고 다 들을지어다
Guide for the Perplexed
THE homonymous term adam is in the first place the name of the first man, being, as Scripture indicates, derived from adamah, “earth.” Next, it means “mankind,” as “My spirit shall not strive with man (adam)” (Gen. 6:3). Again “Who knoweth the spirit of the children of man (adam)” (Eccles. 3:21); “so that a man (adam) has no pre-eminence above a beast” (Eccles. 3:19). Adam. signifies also “the multitude,” “the lower classes” as opposed to those distinguished from the rest, as “Both low (bene adam) and high (bene ish)” (Ps. 49:3).