Type Region
Scripts עֵדֶן(Hebrew)
Meaning & History
Possibly from Hebrew עֵדֶן (ʿeḏen) meaning "pleasure, delight" [1], or perhaps derived from Sumerian 𒂔 (edin) meaning "plain". According to the Old Testament the Garden of Eden was the place where the first people, Adam and Eve, lived before they were expelled.
Related Names
Sources & References
- Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h5730, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h5730.
