What is the specific meaning of "die" in Genesis 2?

Die as described in Genesis 3;19:

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground: for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return.

Ecclesiastes 9;5

For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not any thing; neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Adam and Eve did not die physically that day, a substitute was offered, Jesus Christ.

Genesis 3;21

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

However, Adam and Eve did die spiritually, that day.

Isaiah 59;2

But your iniquities have seperated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Later, Adam and Eve physically died. Eves death is not recorded.

Genesis 5;5

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

Note; When Adam was driven out of the garden, they no longer had access to the tree of life that had sustained them and immortality. They would now physically die. Mans life force has always existed outside himself. We are not immortal in any fashion.

2 Timothy 1;10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immorality to light through the gospels:

According to Romans 6:23 "the wages of sin is death" (KJV) so death is the wages of sin and all that involves. For instance,

• Temporal life on earth because the physical death appears like something new.
• Total depravity or corrupted nature of men slaved to sin. With the new physical death, the men could kill each others and themselves.
• Sickness.
• Aging.
• Unhollyness and separation from God.
• All of this and much more...

Would help to know what Christ came to do, because consist in the reverse or the restitution of the falled nature.

EDIT: Obs: I ommited the connection of the word "death" in that verse of Romans with the word "die" of the verse of Genesis because that is obvious for every christian and we are in a christianity forum.

There is a doubling in this phrase that is not uncommon in Hebrew syntax and has been translated various ways like, "you will surely die."

I would like to focus on "in the day that you eat of it" and suggest that a proper understanding of what God says is best gained by looking at the events following their disobedience.

Note how, prior to Adam and eve's disobedience, they could eat of any fruit of any tree in the garden. The only one they could not eat of was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. So they could have eaten any time from the tree of life and thus lived forever.

15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

But instead they chose to eat of the fruit from the tree God forbade:

17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

cf.

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

Now notice right after God finishes reproving Adam, eve, and the serpent, he clothes them, and (seemingly in that very day), He sets a guard so they no longer could eat and live forever. Thus, they will die.

Genesis 3:24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

So, rather than reading t as "in the day you eat of it you will die that day," we understand by the unfolding of its fulfillment: in the day you eat of it you will no longer have access to the tree of life. Thus you will surely die.

See https://answersingenesis.org/death-before-sin/genesis-2-17-you-shall-surely-die/

They say that an acceptable translation of the phrase is "dying you shall die", and back it up by showing an identical construction found in Numbers 7:10–84, informing the people that that generation would die in the desert without reaching the promised land. The whole generation did not die on the same day - it was spread out over time.

Thus the phrase means that a process of dying would immediately begin, and its sure result would be an ultimate death.

Perhaps a more superficial answer might be that if one day for God is 1,000 years for man, and Adam lived to be 930 years old (Genesis 5:5), then Adam really did die on the same "day".

2 Peter 3:8 (KJV)

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Also Psalms 90:4

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

That is talking about physical death because when Adam disobeyed, God in his mercy had to cut him off from the tree of life so he would not live forever in his sin Genesis 3:22-24 (KJV).

²²And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

²³Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. ²⁴So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

God DID in fact cut him off from the tree of life that day, so Adam did start to die.