Eve
חַוָּהStrong’s H2332chavvah (chav-vah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chavvah is the Hebrew word usually translated “eve”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.”
Meaning
- A woman living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.3.20
How it's translated
- eve 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
חַוָּה chavvah · Eve
A woman living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.3.20; married to Adam (H0121); mother of: Cain (H7014B), Abel (H1893) and Seth (H8352) Also named: Eua (Εὖα "Eve" G2096) § Eve = "life" or "living" the first woman, wife of Adam
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “eve” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EVE, noun
The consort of Adam, and mother of the human race; so called by Adam, because she was the mother of all living. In this case, the word would properly belong to the Hebrew. But the Hebrew name is havah or chavah, coinciding with the verb, to shew, to discover, and Parkhurst hence denominates eve the manifester. In the Septuagint, eve in, is rendered life; but in,
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.