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# חַוָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2332

**Eve** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Eve [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2332/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַוָּה: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2332/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (life, vid. Di Gn 3:20; \> WeProl. 1886, 322; Skizzen iii. 217 after Nö who suggests serpent as poss. meaning, cf. Arabic حَيَّةٌ; but RSK 177 ‘mother of every ḥayy,’ v. ii. חַי sub חיה)—Gn 3:20 and the man called his wife חַוָּ֑ה, because she was אֵם כָּל־חָֽי׃; cf. ח׳ אִשְׁתּוֹ 4:1 (both J).—ii. חַוָּה village, v. infr. sub ii.חוה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Eve (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 3:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.20/#tree)

וַיִּקְרָ֧א הָֽאָדָ֛ם שֵׁ֥ם אִשְׁתּ֖וֹ חַוָּ֑ה כִּ֛י הִ֥וא הָֽיְתָ֖ה אֵ֥ם כָּל־חָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.called the man the.name his.wife his Eve (dm) she she.was the.mother of.every living.\[person\]

*JPS 1917:* And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

[Genesis 4:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.1/#tree)

וְהָ֣אָדָ֔ם יָדַ֖ע אֶת־חַוָּ֣ה אִשְׁתּ֑וֹ וַתַּ֙הַר֙ וַתֵּ֣לֶד אֶת־קַ֔יִן וַתֹּ֕אמֶר קָנִ֥יתִי אִ֖ישׁ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the man he.knew (et) Eve wife his and she.conceived and she.bore (et) Cain and she.said I.have.acquired a.man with Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain, and said: 'I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2332.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2332/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).