Eden
Eden the place (more fully, the Garden of Eden) where Adam and Eve lived in the biblical account of the Creation, from which they were expelled for disobediently eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
The name comes from late Latin (Vulgate), Greek Ēdēn (Septuagint), and Hebrew ῾Ēḏen, perhaps related to Akkadian edinu, from Sumerian eden ‘plain, desert’, but believed to be related to Hebrew ῾ēḏen ‘delight’.
The name comes from late Latin (Vulgate), Greek Ēdēn (Septuagint), and Hebrew ῾Ēḏen, perhaps related to Akkadian edinu, from Sumerian eden ‘plain, desert’, but believed to be related to Hebrew ῾ēḏen ‘delight’.
Eden
Eden
E·den (also Garden of Eden) the place where Adam and Eve lived in the biblical account of the Creation, from which they were expelled for disobediently eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ∎ [as n.] (an Eden) a place or state of great happiness; an unspoiled paradise: the lost Eden of his childhood.
Eden
Eden abode of Adam and Eve (Gen. 2: 15) XIV; delightful abode, paradise XVI. — L. (Vulg.) Ēden, Gr. (LXX) Ēdḗn — Heb. 'ēdhen, orig. ‘delight’.
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