EVE

The first mother of our race, and the cause of our fall. Her history is so closely connected with that of Adam that the remarks made in the article ADAM apply also to her. Her name Eve is from a word signifying life, Ge 3:20. She was made, we are told in Ge 2:18-22, both for man and of him; subordinate and weaker, and yet to be loved as his own body. The history of woman in all ages has been a striking fulfillment of the distinct penalties pronounced upon her, Ge 3:16.

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Eve. Eve
Life; living, the name given by Adam to his wife (Gen. 3:20; 4:1). The account of her creation is given in Gen. 2:21, 22. The Creator, by declaring that it was not good for man to be alone, and by creating for him a suitable companion, gave sanction to monogamy. The commentator Matthew Henry says: “This companion was taken from his side to signify that she was to be dear unto him as his own flesh. Not from his head, lest she should rule over him; nor from his feet, lest he should tyrannize over her; but from his side, to denote that species of equality which is to subsist in the marriage state.” And again, “That wife that is of God’s making by special grace, and of God’s bringing by special providence, is likely to prove a helpmeet to her husband.” Through the subtle temptation of the serpent she violated the commandment of God by taking of the forbidden fruit, which she gave also unto her husband (1 Tim. 2:13-15; 2 Cor. 11:3). When she gave birth to her first son, she said, “I have gotten a man from the Lord” (R.V., “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord,” Gen. 4:1). Thus she welcomed Cain, as some think, as if he had been the Promised One the “Seed of the woman.”

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Eve. living; enlivening

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EVE. → Creation of Ge 1:26-28; 2:21-24; 1Ti 2:13 → Named by Adam Ge 2:23; 3:20 → Beguiled by Satan Ge 3; 2Co 11:3; 1Ti 2:14 → Clothed with fig leaves Ge 3:7 → Clothed with animal skins Ge 3:21 → Curse denounced against Ge 3:16 → Messiah promised to Ge 3:15 → Children of Ge 4:1,2,25; 5:3,4

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the consort of Adam Ge 2:22; 3:1,6,20; 2Co 11:3; 1Ti 2:13

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eve. Eve, n. the close of the day, the fast of a holiday

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Eve (?), n. [[See Even, n.]] 1. 1. Evening.
Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze. Thomson. 2. 2. The evening before a holiday, — from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset, not at midnight; as, Christmas eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. “On the eve of death.” Keble.
Eve churr (Zoöl), the European goatsucker or nightjar; — called also night churr, and churr owl.