Lexical Summary Chavvah: "life", the first woman Original Word: חַוָּהTransliteration: Chavvah Phonetic Spelling: (khav-vaw') Part of Speech: Proper Name Feminine Short Definition: "life", the first woman Meaning: Eve -- "life", the first woman Strong's Concordance Eve Causatively from chavah; life-giver; Chavvah (or Eve), the first woman -- Eve. see HEBREW chavah Brown-Driver-Briggs H2332. Chavvah I. חַוָּה proper name, feminine (life, see Di Genesis 3:20; > WeProl. 1886, 322; Skizzen iii. 217 after Nö who suggests serpent as possible meaning, compare Arabic ; but RSK 177 'mother of every µayy,' see II. חַי below חיה) — 3:20 and the man called his wife חַוָּ֑ה, because she was כָּלחָֽֿי׃ אֵם; compare ׳ח אִשְׁתּוֺ 4:1 (both J). — II. חַוָּה village, see below below II. חוה. |
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