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Eden in the Bible. 1 Son of Joah. 2 Priest. Perhaps this is the same as 1. 3 See Eden, Garden of . 4 Unidentified trading center, possibly in Mesopotamia. 5 Place somewhere near Damascus.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions 1997, originally published by Oxford University Press 1997. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Eden (perhaps Heb., ‘be fruitful’, or Sumerian ‘flat plain’). The dwelling place created by God for Adam and Eve. The rabbis described the ultimate destiny of the righteous as gan Eden (garden of Eden), Eden became, in the Jewish imagination, the epitome of perfection
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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | © The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English 2009, originally published by Oxford University Press 2009. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

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.

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