Seed of the woman
Phrase in Genesis 3:15 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Protoevangelium" and "Protoevangelion" redirect here. For the genre of infancy gospels, see Infancy gospel. For the song by Billy Woods, see Aethiopes (album).
Seed of the woman or offspring of the woman (Biblical Hebrew: זַרְעָ֑הּ, romanized: zar‘āh, lit. 'her seed') is a phrase from the Book of Genesis: as a result of the serpent's temptation of Eve, which resulted in the fall of man, God announces (in Genesis 3:15) that he will put an enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman. In Christianity, this verse is known as the protoevangelium,[lower-alpha 1] and is interpreted as a prophecy of the coming of Jesus. In Judaism, the "seed of the woman" is taken as a collective reference to humankind in general.