Eve
n 1: (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology:
the first woman and mother of the human race; God created
Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden
of Eden
2: the day before; "he always arrives on the eve of her
departure"
3: the period immediately before something; "on the eve of the
French Revolution"
4: the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight
from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening
light across the lake" [syn: evening, eve, even,
eventide]
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Eve \Eve\ ([=e]v), n. [See Even, n.]
1. Evening. [Poetic]
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Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze. --Thomson.
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2. The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of
reckoning the day as beginning at sunset, not at midnight;
as, Christmas eve is the evening before Christmas; also,
the period immediately preceding some important event. "On
the eve of death." --Keble.
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Eve churr (Zo["o]l.), the European goatsucker or nightjar;
-- called also night churr, and churr owl.
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Eve
life; living, the name given by Adam to his wife (Gen. 3:20;
4:1). The account of her creation is given in Gen. 2:21, 22. The
Creator, by declaring that it was not good for man to be alone,
and by creating for him a suitable companion, gave sanction to
monogamy. The commentator Matthew Henry says: "This companion
was taken from his side to signify that she was to be dear unto
him as his own flesh. Not from his head, lest she should rule
over him; nor from his feet, lest he should tyrannize over her;
but from his side, to denote that species of equality which is
to subsist in the marriage state." And again, "That wife that is
of God's making by special grace, and of God's bringing by
special providence, is likely to prove a helpmeet to her
husband." Through the subtle temptation of the serpent she
violated the commandment of God by taking of the forbidden
fruit, which she gave also unto her husband (1 Tim. 2:13-15; 2
Cor. 11:3). When she gave birth to her first son, she said, "I
have gotten a man from the Lord" (R.V., "I have gotten a man
with the help of the Lord," Gen. 4:1). Thus she welcomed Cain,
as some think, as if he had been the Promised One the "Seed of
the woman."
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