Thread:YingHe/@comment-36159587-20190908003152/@comment-39025738-20190918205851

This conversation made me think of a bible verse I randomly read back in church. I couldn’t remember the specifics so I looked it up and it says:

‘So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs [9] and closed up the place with flesh.

Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib [10] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called `woman, [11] ' for she was taken out of man."’

So I think that’s it. The Bible was originally Hebrew(the Hebrews had a word for woman and it was “אשה”), and since a bunch of people were religious when the Bible got translated the word just stuck. Very interesting.