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Anesh, one of several Hebrew words used to denote a man in Old Testament of Bible means incurable, so sick that cannot be healed, if translated literally.

Before I have written that all people are infected with a fungus after Adam's fall and are very much sick.

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This is the reason why the Hebrew word anesh (man) literally means incurable, so sick that cannot be healed.

This fungus causes a so hard sickness that even angels cannot heal it.

To be sick and incurable is one of the main characteristics of a man, otherwise the word meaning sick would be not the same word as the word man. (What an angel may think when he sees a man? An angel would think, it is an incurably sick creature.)

So, one of the main topics of Old Testament so is about creatures which are so sick that cannot be healed. It is about an attempt to heal these who cannot be healed.

However to denote a man in Old Testament are used yet several other words, including the word adam (the same as the name of the first man, Adam). This word does not mean to be sick, as this word is used to Adam and Eve before the Fall to sin when they have become sick. The word adam is used to denote a man in general, whether sick or healthy; the word adam is used in Bible both before and after the Fall of Adam, so that he has become anesh (sick).

But God can heal even that which angels cannot heal. God has promised in Bible, especially New Testament, healing for us.