In the name

I saw a posting in Group 1's blog that I just wanted to add to. It was Corrie's post about Eve's name and its meaning to the story of The Fall. While I agree with her analysis, I also did some research on baby names and their meanings, which I believe may also have some sort of significance. Here is the blog, and the name of the original post is "Eve: A root word"


http://paradiselostcommonplace.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html



This is the first website I used to look up possible name meanings http://www.parents.com/baby-names/eve/


According to that Website, "Eve" is of Hebrew origin and means "life giver". I may be mistaken, but I think that the time in which the bible was written everyone spoke Hebrew, and Jesus was Jewish and must have spoken it as well. But the term "life giver" is very appropriate because Eve was supposed to be the Mother of the Human Race. She is to give life to all other humans. I think she was given this name because its meanings and thats what she was supposed to do.


Another website that supports that definition is http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/meaning_of_Eve.html

This site also emphasizes the maternal aspect of the name "Eve".


And according to wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_(name) ), "Eve as an anglicized form of Gaelic Aoife "radiant, beautiful" in Scotland and Ireland." In the story, Eve is illustrated as being somewhat vain and absorbed in her beauty. She is very pretty, and even Adam cannot deny her good looks. More than anything though, her name always has something to do with life.