Other Hebrew words are used to make a strong sexual distinction. Zakar is used to assert maleness eighty-three times in the Old Testament, and nqebah is used twenty-two times to designate the female. ———————— Fear of women led many rabbis to cast Eve as an evil temptress or a silly woman. ————————❖———————— When God said, “Let Us make man,” He was not speaking of male human beings, but of both men and women. Male and female are equally, and alike, man. All human beings are created in God’s image