Eve

Eve

Eve (Hebrew: חַוָּה, Ḥawwāh in Classical Hebrew, Khavah in Modern Israeli Hebrew, Arabic: حواء, Syriac: ܚܘܐ, Tigrinya: ሕይዋን Hiywan) was, according to the creation myth of Abrahamic religions, the first woman created by God.

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Famous quotes containing the word eve:

    “It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, “All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.” And they did.”
    —Diane Arbus (1923–1971)

    “When Adam delved and Eve span,
    Who was then the gentleman?”
    —John Ball (hanged 1381)