Genesis 3:20

In 11 translations

BSB

And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.Eve sounds like the Hebrew for giving life or living.

KJV

And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.Eve: Heb. Chavah: that is Living

WEB

The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

ASV

And the man called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

LSV

And the man calls his wife’s name Eve, for she has been mother of all living.

YLT

And the man calleth his wife's name Eve: for she hath been mother of all living.

DBY

And Man called his wife's name Eve; because she is the mother of all living.

DRC

And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.

GNV

(And the man called his wiues name Heuah, because she was the mother of all liuing)

JPS

And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

LXXE

And Adam called the name of his wife Life, because she was the mother of all living.Gr. Zoe.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וַיִּקְרָ֧א הָֽאָדָ֛ם שֵׁ֥ם אִשְׁתּ֖וֹ חַוָּ֑ה כִּ֛י הִ֥וא הָֽיְתָ֖ה אֵ֥ם כָּל־חָֽי׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐκάλεσεν Ἀδὰμ τὸ ὄνομα τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ Ζωή, ὅτι μήτηρ πάντων τῶν ζώντων.

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• Adam and Eve: the garden and the fall God places the man in Eden and forbids him to eat from one tree. A serpent challenges the death warning; the woman and her husband eat, blam…

Cross-references most cited first

• Matthew 1:23“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).
• Genesis 2:23And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
• Genesis 2:20The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
• Genesis 5:29And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
• Genesis 16:11The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
• Genesis 29:32–35And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.” Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said,…
• Matthew 1:21She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
• 1 Samuel 1:20So in the course of time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the LORD.”
• Genesis 35:18And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.
• Exodus 2:10When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
• Acts 17:26From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

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