Eden
("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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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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(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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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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