Adam
Archimandrite Nikifor’s Biblical Encyclopedia
(red earth) — the name of one person and of one city: a) (Gen. 2:25). The name of the first man, forefather of all mankind (Acts 17:26). On the sixth and last day of the creation of the world, man was made from the dust of the earth, in the image and likeness of God. The Lord God breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul. The Lord gave him dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts, and every creeping thing upon the earth (Gen. 1:26, 30; 2:16–20).
For the dwelling of man the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, to the east, in which grew out of the ground every tree pleasant to the sight and good for food. A river went out of Eden to water the garden, which in turn parted into four rivers. The Garden of Eden was entrusted to the care of the first man, that he might dress it and keep it. He was permitted to eat of the fruit of every tree in the garden except one — the tree of the knowledge of good and evil — from which, on pain of death, he was forbidden to eat.