Genesis 1 · Verse 27

Genesis 1:27

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:27, King James Version

Genesis 1:27 in other translations

BSBSo God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
WEBGod created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
ASVAnd God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
YLTAnd God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.
DARBYAnd God created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
BBEAnd God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.
WebsterSo God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

What does Genesis 1:27 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 1:26-28

Man was made last of all the creatures: this was both an honour and a favour to him. Yet man was made the same day that the beasts were; his body was made of the same earth with theirs; and while he is in the body, he inhabits the same earth with them. God forbid that by indulging the body, and the desires of it, we should make ourselves like the beasts that perish! Man was to be a creature different from all that…

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Genesis 1:27 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּבְרָ֨אvai.yiv.Ra'and he createdH1254
אֱלֹהִ֤ים\׀'E.lo.HimGodH430
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הָֽאָדָם֙ha.'a.Dam<the> humankindH120
בְּצַלְמ֔וֹbe.tzal.Moin own image hisH6754
בְּצֶ֥לֶםbe.Tze.lemin [the] image ofH6754
אֱלֹהִ֖ים'E.lo.HimGodH430
בָּרָ֣אba.Ra'he createdH1254
אֹת֑וֹ'o.To<obj.> itH853
זָכָ֥רza.KharmaleH2145
וּנְקֵבָ֖הu.ne.ke.Vahand femaleH5347
בָּרָ֥אba.Ra'he createdH1254
אֹתָֽם\׃'o.Tam<obj.> themH853

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Cross references for Genesis 1:27

  • Matthew 19:4

    And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

  • Ephesians 2:10

    For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

  • Genesis 5:1-2

    This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

  • Mark 10:6

    But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

  • Genesis 2:21-25

    And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. …

  • Ephesians 4:24

    And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

  • Psalms 139:14

    I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

  • Isaiah 43:7

    Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

  • Colossians 1:15

    Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

  • 1 Corinthians 11:7-9

    For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

  • Genesis 2:18

    And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

  • Malachi 2:15

    And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

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Context

  • Genesis 1:26

    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

  • Genesis 1:27

    So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

  • Genesis 1:28

    And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

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Genesis 1:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y crió Dios al hombre á su imagen, á imagen de Dios lo crió; varón y hembra los crió.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et Dieu créa l’homme à son image; il le créa à l’image de Dieu; il les créa mâle et femelle.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und Gott schuf den Menschen in seinem Bilde, im Bilde Gottes schuf er ihn; Mann und Weib schuf er sie.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et creavit Deus hominem ad imaginem suam: ad imaginem Dei creavit illum, masculum et feminam creavit eos.