Was God like "I shall call you Adam, and I shall call you Eve, because I like those names. They are hella cool."?
I don't mean to make fun, just a small joke. But seriously is there a reason?
2006-07-12 01:31:31 · 14 answers · asked by Southpaw 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Bible names in Hebrew are descriptions.
Adam means man
Eve means mother
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2006-07-12 01:44:06 · answer #1 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Hebrew term "adam" is used in the OT elsewhere to mean "humanity." It is also given to the first man, in the Genesis creation / Fall of Man story.
It also resembles the Hebrew word for "ground," and Adam is credited being formed by God of the dust of the ground. So it's sort of a play on words.
"Eve" is generally taken to mean "Giver of Life." One online page (Hebrew) says "Eve" is the anglican version of Chava in the Hebrew letters, which means "life."
Whether the vocabulary was derived from their names, or their names were ascribed to them from the vocabulary of the culture, the meaning behind the names seems clear enough... Adam represents mankind, and Eve is ascribed as the mother of all people living.
2006-07-12 08:49:45 · answer #2 · answered by Jennywocky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were named by Rod Serling, Season 5
Episode: Probe 7 - Over and Out - November 29, 1963
2006-07-12 08:53:53 · answer #3 · answered by tRiKsTeRgOd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, Adam named his wife Eve "because she was the mother of all living" (Gen 3:20). I assume since Adam named everything else in the garden and named his wife, that he named himself as well.
2006-07-12 08:44:50 · answer #4 · answered by bobm709 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In one of the Middle Eastern languages, "Adam" means "man." I'm not sure about Eve, but I assume it's the same thing.
2006-07-12 08:36:31 · answer #5 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you'll get the answer if you read Genesis.
Adam means man. Eve means woman. In Hebrew I guess.
2006-07-12 08:36:46 · answer #6 · answered by b.o.r.e.d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The reason is that the authors of the Bible decided they would be good names for the first people on earth.
God had nothing to do with it.
2006-07-12 08:34:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People later on named them.
2006-07-12 08:43:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were called after their ancestors.
Now let us create man after our image and our likeness!
That is why you see these two names as the original ones, they must have a hidden meaning in them both.
2006-07-12 08:41:52 · answer #9 · answered by Walt. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guess the authors thought it had a better ring to it than Cletus and Cliffordette (an actual name, mind you)
2006-07-12 08:45:07 · answer #10 · answered by Sizzlin Sicilian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋