Bible Names

Eden: meaning of the name

Eden means “pleasure; delight.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Eden in Hebrew and Greek

עֶדֶן H5729

ʻEden (eh'-den) — Eden, a place in Mesopotamia

from H5727 (עָדַן); pleasure;

עֵדֶן H5731

ʻÊden (ay'-den) — Eden, the region of Adam's home

the same as H5730 (עֵדֶן) (masculine);

People named Eden in the Bible

Places named Eden

Eden in Scripture

“Eden” appears in 19 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 2:8

    And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

  • Genesis 2:10

    And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

  • Genesis 2:15

    And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

  • Genesis 3:23

    Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

  • Genesis 3:24

    So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

  • Genesis 4:16

    And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

  • 2 Kings 19:12

    Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?

  • 2 Chronicles 29:12

    Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah: