Hebrew the Original Language of Man?

I read this in a bible study on Genesis Im reading by David Cloud and I thought this was very interesting...



Genesis 2:23 is evidence that Hebrew was the original language of man. “Adam’s first recorded statement has a significant element in it called the paronomasia or word pun. He punned on the name ‘man’ (ish) with the word ‘woman’ (ishshah) which means ‘from the man.’ John Gill argues that this pun is not found in other ancient versions: ‘This paronomasia does not appear in the Syriac version, nor in the Chaldee paraphrases of Onkelos and Jonathan. The Syriac uses Gabra for a man, but never Gabretha for a woman, not even in places where men and women are spoken of together….The Syriac or Chaldee language will not admit such an allusion as is in the text. Just a Gabra is used for a man, and not a Gabretha for a woman, so Itta, and Ittetha, and Intetha or Antetha, are used for woman, but never Itt for a man…. This seems to prove that the language Adam spoke to his wife must have been the Hebrew language, and consequently is the primitive one.’ Hebrew students recognize that there are numerous other puns in the Hebrew language, many of which are not translatable in any language, even the English of the KJV, in Gen. 1:11” (Thomas Strouse, “Scholarly Myths Perpetuated on Rejecting the Masoretic Text of the Old Testament,” 2004, Emmanuel Baptist Theological Seminary, Newington, CT).