“Ahdam” refers to the first governance of human kind, “Man”, not the first “human”. A “human” refers to the “hue-of-Man” or “the fundamental component thereof”. The scriptures never refer to Ahdam as a human.
“Ahdam” literally means, “the gathering of the spirit”. It is referring to a time when the “dust” (common logic) and the “water” (issues of life) were finally mixed as a “clay” and into the form of a governance for the behavior of Homo sapiens.
Maybe you could provide some context? Which scriptures? “Literally means ‘the gathering of the spirit’” in which language? I grew up in a Christian (Protestant) household. Can I assume “Ahdam” refers to “Adam” of the book of Genesis in the Bible? If so, why the different spelling? If not, then who or what are you referring to?
Is there a religious tradition that makes these claims, or is this your own creativity at play? Is “human” as “hue-of-Man” just clever sound assocation, or is it grounded in etymology? If it’s just clever sound association, then what is the point? I could as easily say that Ahdam means “Ah, damn!” 
Ancient Anglo words, once called Anglish and now called English, were formed from sounds. Like most ancient languages, the sound of a syllable carried an inferred meaning that was used to create a word. A word carried a thought once considered to be a “spell” cast into the mind, thus words are “spelled” not merely from letters (each of which used to represent a meaning in itself), but once more often from the sounds that relayed meanings. Today we would call it phonetics.
The sound/syllable “ah” in almost all ancient Anglo/Anglish/English referred to what is more often referred to as “spirit” or the “inner energy”, motion, or effort within something. The sound/syllable “dam” referred to something similar to the modern English concept of a “water dam” in that “dam” meant a flow being “held into place”, the flow of spirit/effort. The more Latin concept of a damn being a curse is that same concept, a stagnate effect (fixed influence) upon a person, people, or place. “Damn” still carries that concept today. “Dame”, referring to the female, carried the same concept of a fixed divergent influence over the male and a curse for his rational thinking.
The two concepts of “Ah” and “dam” when put together spell the concept of a spirit that is “damned up into one entity” or “gathered and held into place”. Such is the very concept of a Constitution for a government. But how is a constitution or agreed upon effort to govern ever formed? The bits of common understanding (“grounds”, “dust”) are mixed with the issues/concerns/spirit of the day (“waters”). Together they form the “clay” from which documents such as the US Constitution were formed.
The people’s perception of need is what inspires and manifests the clay into a living entity, a governance with influence and survival responses. The perception of need is Man’s God and his maker, the maker of Ahdam (or more recently spelled “Adam”). The perception of need is what creates all other spirit/effort as well.
But whether such a theory is true or not, the word “Ahdam” meant to refer to Man, the governance of Mankind, not a hu-man. No scripture ever referred to Ahdam as a human, but as Man.
The etymological meaning of Adam was not Ahdam; I’m not sure where that came from here.
The word is firstly Hebrew and has hardly changed since then.
[size=150]אדם[/size]
Hebrew, moves right to left.
[size=150]א[/size] (or “Aleph”) means, in regards to humans, a Divine Man, or one Divinely. It also refers to a unity and power, and in some cases refers to the great I Am by it’s use of referring to the Sky (which the Sky is upon the Earth, thereby “male” in the conception of the Hebrew).
[size=150]ד[/size] (or Daleth) means a gate or entrance…door. Daleth is often used in reference to gaining knowledge or wisdom; learning. Also used with Mem to make the Hebrew word of Blood [size=150]דם[/size].
Which leaves Mem [size=150]ם[/size] (if you want to see it better than it appears here, look up Mem Hebrew Letter in google; it’s better looking than the forum translates). Mem refers to water and fertility, as well as constance of life.
So when you have [size=150]אדם[/size] you literally have a word that means that the Sky (which was the provider) and the Water (which is the fertility) have produced the Gateway to knowledge and wisdom between them, and that they are united and powered by the “sky” and divinity.
That’s quite literally what that word means.
The word translates to ADM (more or less) and is the same word used for Man in the terms of Human.
So humanity is seen as this: the gateway to knowledge and wisdom opened by the providing sky which bared the opportunity to the fertile waters of Earth to which bore out man.
This anglo-saxon based phonetic pseudo-etymology doesn’t really hold up I’m afraid.
Ah, well…
It used to be a lot easier to find references online to the original spelling “Ahdam”, but since the word became part of pop culture and is a common Middle Eastern sir-name, such references have been buried in the obfuscation of decadent culture. But digging a little;
Aleph is the word we use to speak of the initiating sound “ah” or more phonically, “uh”. It is called a “glottal stop” and even though it is considered a vowel in English, was considered a consonant in Hebrew. It represents “the first” and in Greek is called “alpha”. Today, in English it is simply, “A”, the first letter of our alphabet. It is also associated with the idea of initial enlightenment or the “spark of wisdom”, as used in the word, “Buddha”.
The sound “ah” became synonymous with the idea of initial effort or spirit through the concept that all things begin with effort (i.e. “spirit” or “energy”). “YAH” being the more formally accepted concept of First Cause, an agreement in spirit, now often used to mean merely, “yes, I agree”.
Daleth (or more properly spelled, “Dalet”) is the fourth letter in the Hebrew alphabet and when used as an individual sound does mean door, gate, or dam. The concept is of something that opens or stops an otherwise free flow (of spirit in this case). To translate into more common understanding, it is merely a “holding or gathering device”.
Mem, the 13th letter, does represent water (by modern translation), which in concept and by metaphor represents the flow of spirit (hence the common, “Holy Water” concern, “walking on the water”, “dividing the waters”, “calming the waters/sea”, and so on…).
Thus if you read the lettering backwards, as you say, you get;
1) First, initial
2) Door, gate, holding-device, gathering
3) Water, spirit
Or into more common English;
The first gathering of the spirit.
So yes, I’m afraid, the phonetic translation really DOES hold up.
No, I meant the transliteration of the phonetic sound doesn’t bear anything.
The etymological backing is pretty much the same in what you just showed to what I was showing; either way.
The consequence of the two surrounding letters produces the opportunity for the third letter which is in the middle.
As you say, the spirit; or wisdom and knowledge capable of a spirit of a man.
That’s the root, and you aren’t really wrong.
I was just saying that the etymological root is not AHDAM; it’s אדם, which is a completely different point than what you were showing previously.
People were probably getting confused because you weren’t showing the originating language of the name/word but instead pulling it from the transliteration…which can be extremely confusing when you assert that the transliteration is the origin of something by method of phonetics.
The phonetics aren’t exactly the root; though they are, as you point out, tied to the root equally.
I wasn’t saying you were directly incorrect.
It would be as for me to take a Greek word and only work off of the English transliteration and try to show how the phonetics generated the meanings.
It’s really incorrect to do that because the meaning is derived from the Greek and how the Greek handles it’s myriads of conjugations.
Luckily, Hebrew doesn’t really have nearly the amount of conjugations flying around, but the point still stands.
It would have been far more readily understood what you were trying to get across by showing the Hebrew since your meanings were actually being derived from the Hebrew alphabet properly.
Each letter has a multitude of meanings to themselves…for instance, neither of us bothered to discuss how Aleph also refers to the symbol of the OX and the force of the OX upon the Earth, and symbolically has relevance to it’s placement into the name אדם.
It just wasn’t the meaning tangent that was of relevance to this particular discussion and perspective.
You do some good work there James.
Keep it going, it’s kind of a fresh air to have someone else around that knows their etymology and cultural meanings of ancient cultures which influenced modern ideals, practices, and thoughts.
What makes sense and reverence to some people is meaningless obfuscation to others. Note that I was translating the Anglish into modern relevance. What the Hebrew spelling was is irrelevant when considering what the Anglos meant by what they said. The actual correctness of their thoughts is an entirely different issue, but in this case, I’m pretty certain they properly understood what the original Hebrew concepts were with or without understanding the Hebrew language language or alphabet.
But still in either case, Ahdam, or Adam, never meant “the first human” in any language. 
Oh, right…no…wait…someone asserted that somewhere?
Throughout Western misChristianity. Ask any “man on the street”. ](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/uploads/default/original/2X/7/7c349bf1053f368a5729d053e1e91215f22ce66c.gif "Brick wall"){kind=small}
While you’re at it, ask him, “what is a god?” That one you can ask any preacher or priest and not get a straight answer either.
But that would be a different thread. 
Sounds like a good thread to start. 
It might be interesting to some to note that Anglish was the common language used by traveling tradesmen who carried news from town to town as “the messengers”, and was the language of the “Angels”.
The Anglos always settle at the most Western region attainable. Pre-Roman times had them at the Western extreme at the coast of Germania. As Rome fell, they were pushed out to the island we now call England (Anglo-land). As America became populated, they settled the most Western area we now call, “Los Angeles” (“City of the Angels”). And what do the Anglos of Los Angeles do? They produce movies - stories and messages to the public. Movies carry conceptual messages and themes and today, even hypnotic and subtle “reality programming” to inflict upon the young via the lust for entertainment. Separating angel from devil can be quite a task these days.
The word “angel” came from the same concept as “angle” and was formed pre-Latin. The conceptual association is in the idea of an angle branching from a tree of knowledge, “a new idea” and “a message about truth (God)”. Today we more often refer to the carrier of an idea as the angel instead of the idea itself, but such is merely the result of common story telling.
In more ancient times, and in ancient scriptures (eg, The story of Lot), an angel referred to a significant idea and thus had great power over men and were often the object of worship, lusting, and destruction. If Western Christians re-read the story of Lot with that in mind, they get a vastly different and more significant understanding of what was being said.
In addition to the notion that “ah” referred to spirit, is the fact that our “ghe” sound also came from that same glottal-stop sound and also referred to spirit, as in “ghe-host” (spirit host, ghost), “ghe-o” (to move, esprit, go), and even ghe-odd (a unique circumventing/determining spirit, god).
I want to thank you TheStump for your challenge. You inspired and allowed for me to compile a short blog post on this subject; Ahdam, The Making of Man.
Ahdam was designed to be in a similar pattern (image) to The Principle (Elohim) that represents the union of all accurate principles. Ahdam was the government formed by mutual agreement, not unlike the US Constitution.
The agreement came about via that Principle that tends to propel man into finding harmony (agreement), but it does it through a display of the consequences of disagreement (evil). Ahdam (the government) chose to try to create and inspire by displaying disagreement (terrorism) so as to inspire agreement (the knowledge of good and evil) and thus “be as God”. Due to such a behavior, Ahdam destroyed paradise.
But realize, that even Ahdam, was never a human man, but Man (the whole entity - Government of Mankind and the hu-mans).
Who here overstands this?