Appendix:Gikun Usage in Meiji Version of Japanese Bible/生

Japanese

Kanji in this term
生
いけるもの Grade: 1
jukujikun

Etymology

Compound of 生ける (ikeru, the 連体形 (rentaikei, “attributive form”) of verb 生ける (ikeru), “to have life”) +‎ 者 (mono, “person”), applying the 義訓 (gikun, “meaning reading”) to 生 (sei, “life”).

Noun

生(いけるもの) • (ikerumono) 

1. the living
   • Book of Genesis 3:20 (page 4)

     アダム其(その)妻(つま)の名(な)をヱバと名(なづ)けたり其(そ)は彼(かれ)は群(すべて)の生(いけるもの)の母(はゝ)なればなり

     Adamu sono tsuma no na o Eba to nazuketari so wa kare wa subete no ikerumono no haha nareba nari

     And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.