Genesis 3:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Adam called his wife's name Eve;e because she was the mother of all living. ”

Genesis 3:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- XVI. The Judgment 15. שׁוּף shûp “bruise, wound.” τηρεῖν (= τερεῖν ?) tērein ἐκτρίβειν ektribein Job 9:17 , καταπατεῖν katapatein Psalms 139:11 , συντρίβειν...
Genesis 3:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Among the animals formed by Yahweh, in His first attempt to provide man with a companion, was the serpent; at that time either a quadruped or holding itself erect. It was eminent among its fellows fo...
Genesis 3:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Eve . Hebrew. Chavvah. Life, Life-spring. Showing that he believed God. The name "Eve" occurs. times: here; Gen 4:1. 2 Corinthians 11:3 . and 1 Timothy 2:13 . all . all who should live after...
Genesis 3:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

20. And Adam called, etc. There are two ways in which this may be read. The former, in the pluperfect tense, ‘Adam had called.’ If we follow this reading, the sense of Moses will be, that...
Genesis 3:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living - A man who does not understand the origin...
Genesis 3:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And Adam called, &c.— Adam had probably expected the immediate infliction of the punishment denounced, thou shalt die; and finding it respited, and that he and his wife were to be the parents...
Genesis 3:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. And Adam called his wife's name Eve - [Hebrew, Chawaah ( H2332 ); the Septuagint, Zooee ( G2222 ), lif...
Genesis 3:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Paradise and the Fall In this famous passage we possess a wealth of moral and spiritual teaching regarding God and man. The intention of the writer is evidently to give an answer to the question:...
Genesis 3:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE. The Bereshit Rabba argues that Adam and Eve remained in their original state of innocence for six hours only. Others have supp...
Genesis 3:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE FALL Genesis 3:1-24 PROFOUND as the teaching of this narrative is, its meaning does not lie on the surface. Literal interpretation will reach a measure of its significance, but plainly ther...
Genesis 3:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God's Condemnation of Adam and Eve Genesis 3:9-21 God does not wait for Adam to find his own way back, but hastens in search of him. “Where art thou” is rendered in one version, Alas for thee....
Genesis 3:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here begins the second section of the Book of Genesis. As the first has answered questions concerning creation, the second replies to questions asked in the presence of sin and suffering and sorrow....
Genesis 3:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. I would desire the Reader to pause over this verse and compare it with Genesis 2:23 . In that place, our first father...
Genesis 3:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Adam called his wife's name Eve ,.... Whom he had before named "Ishah", a woman, because taken from him the man, Genesis 2:23 and now gives her a new name upon this scene of things, which had...
Genesis 3:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. Ver. 20. And Adam called his wife's name Eve.] That is, Life, or Living. Not, per antiphrasim, as some would have it;...
Genesis 3:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

God having named the man, and called him Adam , which signifies red earth; Adam, in further token of dominion, named the woman, and called her Eve , that is, life. Thus Adam bears the name of...
Genesis 3:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE FALL OF MAN The serpent is introduced in this chapter as being more cunning than all other beasts. This was evidently so just by the fact of Satan's using the serpent for his mouthpiece. It is...
Genesis 3:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. God having named the man, and called him Adam, which signifies red earth, Adam, in further token...
Genesis 3:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The word signifies either a living, or, the giver or preserver of life. Though for her sin justly sentenced to a present death, yet by God's infinite mercy, and by virtue of the promised Seed,...
Genesis 3:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.' The man recognises that God has shown mercy to him and that, in spite of all, life will therefore go on. And by re...
Genesis 3:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 3:13-21 THE GENERAL RESULTS OF THE FALL OF OUR FIRST PARENTS I. The result of the fall of our first parents is an eternal enmity between Satan and h...
Genesis 3:20 - Scofield Reference Notes

Eve That is, living, or life-giver.
Genesis 3:20 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 3 Consider: (1) some of the consequences, and (2) some of the corroborative proofs of the fall. I. Beside and behind the outward consequences, there were inward results far more terrible....
Genesis 3:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Genesis 3:1 . Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?...
Genesis 3:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 3:1 . The serpent. The rabbins and the christian doctors have largely sported their opinions here. St. Cyril contends that Satan assumed the figure of the serpent, and so talked with the w...
Genesis 3:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

What is this that thou hast done? The general results of the Fall I. ETERNAL ENMITY BETWEEN SATAN AND HUMANITY ( Genesis 3:14 ). 1. This curse was uttered in reference to Satan. 2. This a...
Genesis 3:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 3:20 Arraigned, convicted, judged, the guilty but pardoned pair prepare to leave their garden home—the woman to begin her experience of sorrow, dependence, and subjection...
Genesis 3:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Adam called his wife's name Eve because she was the mother of all living. Both Adam and his wife received the first Gospel proclamation in silence; they believed the promise and arose from their...
Genesis 3:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Adam. Genesis 2:20 Genesis 2:23 Genesis 5:29 Genesis 16:11 Genesis 29:32-35 Genesis 35:18 Exodus 2:10 1 Samuel 1:20 Matthew 1:21 Matthew 1:23 Eve. Heb. Chavah; that is, living. of...
Genesis 3:20 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Cross in Genesis Genesis 2:22-25 ; Genesis 3:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS If Jesus Christ, in the purposes of God, was given to die before the world was formed, or before man was created; and...
Genesis 3:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

God having named the man, and called him Adam, which signifies red earth, he in farther token of dominion named the woman, and called her Eve — That is, life. Adam bears the name of the dying body,...

Genesis 3:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 3:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 3:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Genesis 3:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 3:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 3:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 3:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 3:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 3:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 3:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Genesis 3:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 3:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 3:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 3:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 3:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 3:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 3:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 3:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 3:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 3:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 3:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 3:20 - Scofield Reference Notes

Genesis 3:20 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 3:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Genesis 3:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 3:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 3:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 3:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 3:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 3:20 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Genesis 3:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes