Bible Names

Eve: meaning of the name

Eve means “living; enlivening.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)girl name

Eve in Hebrew and Greek

חַוָּה H2332

Chavvâh (khav-vaw') — Chavvah (or Eve), the first woman

causatively from H2331 (חָוָה); life-giver;

Εὖα G2096

Eûa — Eua (or Eva, i.e. Chavvah), the first woman

of Hebrew origin (H02332);

Who named Eve in the Bible

Eve in Scripture

“Eve” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 3:20

    And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

  • Genesis 4:1

    And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

  • 2 Corinthians 11:3

    But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

  • 1 Timothy 2:13

    For Adam was first formed, then Eve.