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Eden

עֵ֫דֶן · e.den · H5731B“pleasure; delight” Hitchcock's 186913 mentions in 4 books, most in Genesis (6)

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Mentioned most in

Genesis · 6Ezekiel · 5Isaiah · 1Joel · 1
Counted from 13 references · STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0

About this place

Eden, also known as the Garden of Eden, was the perfect paradise created by God as a dwelling place for the first man and woman, Adam and Eve. It was planted by God in the east (Genesis 2:8) and was watered by a river that divided into four headwaters (Genesis 2:10). God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it (Genesis 2:15). The garden contained various trees, including the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:9). After Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they were expelled from the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:23-24). Cherubim and a flaming sword were placed at the east of the garden to guard the way to the tree of life (Genesis 3:24). The Garden of Eden is mentioned in later biblical passages as a symbol of perfect beauty, abundance, and God's ideal for His creation (Isaiah 51:3; Ezk.28.13; 31:9, 16, 18; 36:35; Jol.2.3). The exact location of the Garden of Eden is unknown, but it is believed to have been situated in the ancient Near East, possibly in Mesopotamia.

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Every mention

13 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
GenesisChapter 2: 3 mentionsChapter 3: 2 mentionsChapter 4: 1 mention6 mentions
Genesis 2:8Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.Genesis 2:10A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.Genesis 2:15Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.Genesis 3:23Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.Genesis 3:24So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.Genesis 4:16Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
IsaiahChapter 51: 1 mention1 mention
Isaiah 51:3For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in…
EzekielChapter 28: 1 mentionChapter 31: 3 mentionsChapter 36: 1 mention5 mentions
Ezekiel 28:13You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes…Ezekiel 31:9I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.’Ezekiel 31:16I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that…Ezekiel 31:18“‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the…Ezekiel 36:35They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’
JoelChapter 2: 1 mention1 mention
Joel 2:3A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

What the dictionary says

Delight.

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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