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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Eve


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Eve Eve

Eve is the wife of Adam; traditionally the first human female, but that tradition is presently under attack. See for more info the Chaotic Set Theory.

Most (if not all) translators and interpreters derive this name from haya (haya 644) meaning life. In Genesis 3:20 it reads that Eve was named this way because she was em kal hay; mother of all life. The Hebrew word em ('em 115a), mother, comes from the same root as amma ('amma 115b, c, d, e), mother city, cubit, tribe/ people; hence the phrases Mother Babylon and Mother Jerusalem. The phrase 'all life' returns six times in Scriptures and never just mankind is meant (show me). Hence the 'mother of all life' is the biosphere; all living things.

The name Eve, however, is identical to the root Eve (hwh 617-619):
Eve (hwh 617), in Arabic collect or gather; circle of tents (BDB); the unused root of Eve (hawwa 617), tent, village.
Eve (hawa 618) means show, tell, make known.
Eve (hawa 619) means to prostrate oneself; worship.

Eve does not mean `the girl of the two,' and is also not the model for all wives (Keil and Delitzsch) bound to goof up. Man and woman are both under label Adam, and their drive to group up lodge in Eve.

The name Eve means Gathering/ Message because she was the mother of all of life.

The name Eve is strikingly similar to the name Hivite.



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