Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #2332 - חַוָּה Chavvah

Original Word:	חַוָּה
Transliteration:	Chavvah
Phonetic Spelling:	(khav-vaw')
Definition:	"life", the first woman
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Feminine
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Eve

Causatively from chavah; life-giver; Chavvah (or Eve), the first woman -- Eve.

see HEBREW chavah

Englishman's Concordance

Eve=“life” or “living”
1) the first woman, wife of Adam
Part of Speech: noun proper feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: causatively from H2331

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. חַוָּהproper name, feminine (life, see Di Genesis 3:20; > We^{Prol. 1886, 322; Skizzen iii. 217} after Nö who suggests serpent as possible meaning, compare Arabic

; but RS^{K 177} 'mother of every µayy,' see II. חַי below חיה) — Genesis 3:20and the man called his wifeחַוָּ֑ה, because she was אֵם כָּלחָֽֿי׃; compare אִשְׁתּוֺ׳חGenesis 4:1 (both J). — II. חַוָּהvillage, see below below II. חוה.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2332. חַוָּה (Chavvah) — 2 Occurrences

Genesis 3:20
HEB:שֵׁ֥ם אִשְׁתּ֖וֹ חַוָּ֑ה כִּ֛י הִ֥וא
NAS: name Eve, because
KJV: name Eve; because she was the mother
INT: name his wife's Eve because he

Genesis 4:1
HEB:יָדַ֖ע אֶת־ חַוָּ֣ה אִשְׁתּ֑וֹ וַתַּ֙הַר֙
NAS: with his wife Eve, and she conceived
KJV: knew Eve his wife;
INT: now the man had Eve his wife conceived

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