# chavah (חַוָּה)

pronounced: kha-VAH


**Eve — Genesis 3:20 connects her Hebrew name with life and ‘all the living’**

## In Scripture

> The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.
> — Genesis 3:20 (The verse itself explains Chavah through her place as mother of all living)

> The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”
> — Genesis 4:1 (Exact occurrence — Eve is named as the mother of Cain, the second Old Testament use of Chavah as her name.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/chavah/