Eve

Eve

Old Testament the first woman; mother of the human race, fashioned by God from the rib of Adam (Genesis 2:18-25)

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Eve

in the Bible, the first woman. [O.T.: Genesis 1–5]

See: Firsts

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Eve

for disobeying God, would suffer in childbirth. [O.T.: Genesis 3:16]

See: Punishment

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EVE

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Eve

 

(ancient Hebrew, Havah), according to biblical mythology, the wife of Adam, created from his rib by god. She was the first woman and the mother of the human race in Judaic, Christian, and, later, Islamic mythology. According to the legend, at the instigation of the serpent, she tasted and persuaded Adam to taste the “forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” For this “sin,” bringing condemnation upon the whole human race, Eve and Adam were driven out of paradise by god.

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