^2:20So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam⁶⁰ no companion who corresponded to him was found.⁶¹

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Footnotes

60 Here for the first time the Hebrew word אָדָם (’adam) appears without the article, suggesting that it might now be the name “Adam” rather than “[the] man.” Translations of the Bible differ as to where they make the change from “man” to “Adam” (e.g., and translate “Adam” here, while and continue to use “the man”; the uses “Adam” twice in v. 19).
61 Heb “there was not found a companion who corresponded to him.” The subject of the third masculine singular verb form is indefinite. Without a formally expressed subject the verb may be translated as passive: “one did not find = there was not found.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.

But for Adam no suitable helper was found.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man no helper was found corresponding to him.

NLTNew Living Translation

He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And the man gave names to every domesticated animal and to the birds of heaven and to all the wild animals. But for the man there was not found a helper as his counterpart.

KJV 1900King James Version

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

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