Passage Research
Genesis 3 — Sermon Preparation
The serpent tempts the woman, Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit, and God expels them from Eden. Below is a research summary for Genesis 3, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 24
- verses
- 347 / 127
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 21
- classic sermon excerpts
- 7
- preachers & commentators
Genesis 3 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אָכַל | ʼâkal | H398 | 17 | eat |
| אִשָּׁה | ʼishshâh | H802 | 13 | woman |
| עֵץ | ʻêts | H6086 | 11 | tree, wood |
| גַּן | gan | H1588 | 8 | garden |
| אָדָם | ʼâdâm | H120 | 8 | ruddy, human being |
| נָחָשׁ | nâchâsh | H5175 | 5 | snake |
| חַי | chay | H2416 | 7 | alive, raw |
How preachers through history handled this text
21 public-domain excerpts on Genesis 3, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“God bid man go out; told him he should no longer occupy and enjoy that garden: but man liked the place, and was unwilling to leave it, therefore God made him go out. This signified the shutting out of him, and all his guilty race, from that communion with God, which was the bliss and glory of paradise. But man was only sent to till the ground out of which he was taken. He was sent to a place of toil, not to a place of torment. Our first parents were shut out from the privileges of their state of innocency, yet they were not left to despair. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Genesis 3:22–35 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Eden 1— Gen 3:23
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