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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