Eden
עֶ֫דֶןStrong’s H5729eden (e-den)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Eden is the Hebrew word usually translated “eden”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?”
Meaning
- § Eden = "pleasure"
How it's translated
- eden 2
- and eden 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
עֶ֫דֶן eden · Eden
§ Eden = "pleasure" a place conquered by Assyria; probably located in the northwest of Mesopotamia
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “eden” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
E'DEN, noun
[Heb. pleasure, delight.]
The country and garden in which Adam and Eve were placed by God himself.
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.