Eve

The personal name given by the man to his wife immediately after the fall in the Garden of Eden. The Hebrew is Chawa or Hawa "because she was the mother of all the living [Heb. chaya]" (Gen 3:20). Another theory, with ancient Jewish roots but popularized by 20th Cent. writing, asserts that the name came from the Aramaic word chiwya, 'serpent,' and used as a pun on the woman by the narrator (the theory is not impossible but has all the echoes of a misogynic jab on the woman).

The English name derives indirectly from the Vulgate which rendered the Hebrew word Huea (or Eua in some manuscripts), which then passed into the NT as Eva. This reappears in English translations as 'Eve.'

Rather surprising, Eve—being the biblical proto-matriarch and whose role is central to all biblical theology—Eve appears in the Bible so infrequently, only four times: Gen 3:20, 4:1, 2 Cor 11:3 and 1 Tim 2:13.

CONCORDANCE (NIV):

Gen 3:20 — Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

Gen 4:1 — Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, "With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man."

2 Cor 11:3 — But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

1 Tim 2:13 — For Adam was formed first, then Eve.