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# עֵדֶן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5731

**Eden** — used 14 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

Eden [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5731/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵ֫דֶן³: n.pr.terr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5731/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr. (prob. associated by Heb. with i. עֵדֶן);—district in which lay garden of י׳, home of Adam and Eve: וַיִּטַּע גַּן־בְּעֵדֶן Gn 2:8, river יֹצֵא מֵע׳ v 10, קִדְמַת־ע׳ 4:16; גַּן־ע׳ 2:15; 3:23, 24 (all 𝔊 Εδεμ); cf. כְּגַן־ע׳ Ez 36:35 Jo 2:3 and כְּע׳ Is 51:3 (‖ גַּן־י׳), all sim. of fertility; ע׳ גַּן־אֱלֹהִים Ez 28:13, עֲצֵי ע׳ אֲשֶׁר בְּגַן הָאֱלֹהִים 31:9, עֲצֵי ע׳ v 16, 18(×2) (𝔊 Ez Jo ἡ τρυφή; Is παράδεισος).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 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: of Eden (10); Eden (4).

## In the verses

[Genesis 4:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.16/#tree)

וַיֵּ֥צֵא קַ֖יִן מִלִּפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב בְּאֶֽרֶץ־נ֖וֹד קִדְמַת־עֵֽדֶן׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.out Cain from before Yahweh and he.dwelt in the.land of.Nod the.east of.Eden

*JPS 1917:* And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

[Genesis 2:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.8/#tree)

וַיִּטַּ֞ע יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהִ֛ים גַּן־בְעֵ֖דֶן מִקֶּ֑דֶם וַיָּ֣שֶׂם שָׁ֔ם אֶת־הָֽאָדָ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָצָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.planted Yahweh God a.garden in Eden from.\[the\] east and he.put there (et) the man whom he.had.formed

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5731.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5731/): 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).