Eden
Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the
son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons
of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of
Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and
Eden the son of Joah:...
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Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone
[was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the
beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald,
and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets
and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou
wast created....
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For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste
places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her
desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be
found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody....
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The Garden of Eden (Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן, Gan Eden; Arabic: جنة عدن,
Jannat ‘Adn)[1] is described in the Book of Genesis as being
the place where the first man, Adam, and his wife, Eve, lived
after they were created by God. Literally, the Bible speaks
about a garden in Eden (Gen. 2:8). This garden forms part of
the Genesis creation narrative and ...
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e'-d'-n (`edhen, "delight"; Edem):
(1) The land in which "Yahweh God planted a garden," where
upon his creation "he put the man whom he had formed" (Gen
2:8). In the Assyrian inscriptions idinu (Accadian, edin)
means "plain" and it is from this that the Biblical word is
probably derived. Following are the references to Eden in
the Bible, aside...
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1. The garden of Eden
Ge 2:8-17; 3:23,24; 4:16; Isa 51:3; Eze 28:13;
31:9,16,18;
36:35; Joe 2:3
-2. A marketplace of costly merchandise
2Ki 19:12; Isa 37:12; Eze 27:23; Am 1:5
-3. A Gershonite
2Ch 29:12
-4. A Levite
2Ch 31:15...
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(pleasure).
1. The first residence of man, called in the
Septuagint Paradise. The latter is a word of Persian origin,
and describes an extensive tract of pleasure land, somewhat
like an English park; and the use of it suggests a wider
view of man's first abode than a garden. The description of
Eden is found in Ge 2:8-14 In the eastern portion...
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delight. (1.) The garden in which our first parents dewlt
(Gen.
2:8-17). No geographical question has been so much
discussed as
that bearing on its site. It has been placed in
Armenia, in the
region west of the Caspian Sea, in Media, near
Damascus, in
Israel, in Southern Arabia, and in Babylonia. The
site must
undoubtedly be sought for so...
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("delight".) ("Paradise",) the Septuagint translation of
"garden," a park and pleasure ground. From the Zendic
pairidaeza, a hedging round. In N.W. Mesopotamia an Eden is
mentioned near the Tigris (2 Kings 19:12; Isaiah 37:12;
Ezekiel 27:23). Another, in Coelosyria, near Damascus (Amos
1:5). The primitive Eden was somewhere in the locality
co...
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