Lexicon Chavvah: "life," the first woman Original Word: חַוָּהPart of Speech: Proper Name Feminine Transliteration: Chavvah Phonetic Spelling: (khav-vaw') Short Definition: Eve NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definition"life," the first woman NASB TranslationEve (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs I. חַוָּה proper name, feminine ( life, see Di Genesis 3:20; > We Prol. 1886, 322; Skizzen iii. 217 after Nö who suggests serpent as possible meaning, compare Arabic ; but RS K 177 'mother of every µayy,' see II. חַי below חיה) — Genesis 3:20 and the man called his wife חַוָּ֑ה, because she was אֵם כָּלחָֽֿי׃; compare אִשְׁתּוֺ ׳ח Genesis 4:1 (both J). — II. חַוָּה village, see below below II. חוה. Strong's Eve Causatively from chavah; life-giver; Chavvah (or Eve), the first woman -- Eve. see HEBREW chavah |
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