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# eden

«eden» in Mova's school dictionary: **The Garden of Eden was the beautiful garden where, in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

proper noun (Eden, the Garden of Eden); noun (an Eden — a paradise)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (Bible) The Garden of Eden was the beautiful garden where, in Genesis, God put the first people, Adam and Eve, before they disobeyed by eating the forbidden fruit and had to leave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eden/#m1)

2) An Eden is any very beautiful, peaceful place, like a paradise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eden/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In RE the story of Eden is about trust, temptation and choices; the serpent tempts Eve and Adam to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Writers call a lovely garden or island "an Eden". The Eden Project in Cornwall is a famous garden in giant domes. Phrases: the Garden of Eden, a little Eden, east of Eden.

### examples

- God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eden/#x1)
- The serpent tempted Eve in Eden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eden/#x2)
- After eating the fruit, Adam and Eve had to leave Eden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eden/#x3)
- Nan's garden in summer is a little Eden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eden/#x4)
- We visited the Eden Project and its rainforest dome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eden/#x5)
- The island looked like an Eden of palm trees and blue sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eden/#x6)
- The garden was a very Eden, with running water amongst its lawns, with flowers and the lament of doves and the jug-jug of nightingales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eden/#x7)

### note

Capital E. The input is lower case, but the word is a name. The Bible says "fruit", not "apple" — the apple is a later picture tradition.

### In the corpora

- [Genesis 2 tells of the Garden of Eden, a beautiful garden where God put the first people to live and to work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/14/)
- [Adam and Eve are the first man and woman in the Bible, made by God and placed in the Garden of Eden.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/6/)
- [And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.41/)
- [And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.43/)
- [And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.49/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «eden» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eden/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.