亚当和夏娃37 篇文章

亚当为何给女人起名夏娃?这个名字意为生命,他在堕落后才起名



  • 亚当给他的妻子起名夏娃,“因为她是众生之母”(创世记 3:20)。
  • 希伯来语名字 Chavvah 意为“生命”;希腊语七十士译本将其译为 Zoe,即“生命”。
  • 在此之前,她被称为女人,“因为她是出于男人”(创世记 2:23),这是希伯来语 ish 和 ishshah 的双关语。
  • 亚当是在上帝于创世记 3:14–19 宣判之后,在穿上皮衣和被逐出伊甸园之前起名的。
  • 马修·亨利写道:“如果亚当是出于自己,那便是他信靠上帝话语的表现”,他也将其视为丈夫权威的象征;加尔文则对这种信心的解读表示怀疑。
  • “圣经平等基督徒”组织的作者马丁·希尔兹将圣经中的命名解读为“性格识别”,而非统治权。
  • 《古兰经》从未提及她的名字;Hawwa 这个名字来自穆斯林传统。

Adam named his wife Eve “because she was the mother of all living”. Until then she was called Woman. Her Hebrew name, Chavvah, means life, and the verse explains it with the Hebrew word for living. He gave the name after the fall, just after God’s sentence of death and before the garments of skin and the expulsion from Eden. The verse is Genesis 3:20, and it is the only place the Bible gives the reason for her name: “And…

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