---
title: חַוָּה — Eve · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חַוָּה (2332), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Eve. BDB 1906: n.pr.f. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2332.html)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ח](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1495.md)‎ / חַוָּה‎

<!-- .hw dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
# חַוָּה

<!-- .meta -->
«חַוָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Eve** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 2332 · **BDB:** חַוָּה

### Glosses

Eve (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Eve [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2332/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2332/#m2)

<!-- fold -->
**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (life, vid. Di Gn 3:20; \> WeProl. 1886, 322; Skizzen iii. 217 after Nö who suggests serpent as poss. meaning, cf. Arabic حَيَّةٌ; but RSK 177 ‘mother of every ḥayy,’ v. ii. חַי sub חיה)—Gn 3:20 and the man called his wife חַוָּ֑ה, because she was אֵם כָּל־חָֽי׃; cf. ח׳ אִשְׁתּוֹ 4:1 (both J).—ii. חַוָּה village, v. infr. sub ii.חוה.

<!-- .note -->
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חַוָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2332/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[Genesis 3:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.20/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וַיִּקְרָ֧א הָֽאָדָ֛ם שֵׁ֥ם אִשְׁתּ֖וֹ חַוָּ֑ה כִּ֛י הִ֥וא הָֽיְתָ֖ה אֵ֥ם כָּל־חָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.called the man the.name his.wife his Eve (dm) she she.was the.mother of.every living.\[person\]

*JPS 1917:* And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[Genesis 4:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.1/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וְהָ֣אָדָ֔ם יָדַ֖ע אֶת־חַוָּ֣ה אִשְׁתּ֑וֹ וַתַּ֙הַר֙ וַתֵּ֣לֶד אֶת־קַ֔יִן וַתֹּ֕אמֶר קָנִ֥יתִי אִ֖ישׁ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the man he.knew (et) Eve wife his and she.conceived and she.bore (et) Cain and she.said I.have.acquired a.man with Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain, and said: 'I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.'

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [חָוָה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2331.md)
- next →: [חַוָּה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2333.md)
- ↑ back to [ח](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1495.md)