עֵ֫דֶן
Eden
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5731 appears in the Book of 2 Chronicles — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 29:12 וְ/עֵ֖דֶן conj + n Proper Then the Levites arose, Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;
- 2 Chronicles 31:15 עֵ֣דֶן n Proper Under him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to give to their brothers by divisions, as well to the great as to the small:
About this entry
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“Eden” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name עדן (ʻÊden). First canonically at Genesis 2:8, it enters the text early. It appears 15 verses across 5 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in Genesis. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5731 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,752
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,752 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 6 verses 40%
- Ezekiel 5 verses 33%
- 2 Chronicles 2 verses 13%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 15 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 47%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 6 verses · 40%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 3 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Eden 14×
- American Standard Version†: Eden 14×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Eden 15×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Eden 15×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5731 across 17† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5731 across 17† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5731 across 16† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5731 across 16† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 0 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
עדן I [m.] luxury, dainty, delight
עדן II m. Levite name 2 Ch 29
עדן III (prob. associated by Heb. with i. עֵדֶן)
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.[m.] luxury, dainty, delight;—pl. abs. עֲדָנִים luxuries 2 S 1:24 si vera l. (read perhaps סְדִינִים [v. סָדִין] Klo Gr HPS); pl. sf. Je 51:34 he hath filled his belly מֵעֲדָנָ֑י from my dainties (fig. of Nebuchad.’s plunder; Gie reads מַעֲדַנָּי֑); 𝔗 Gf Rothst join with foll.: from my dainties hath he thrust me forth; fig. of delights of worshipping י׳, נַחַל עֲדָנֶיךָ ψ 36:9 (‖ דֶּשֶׁן בֵּיתֶ֑ךָ).
II. n.pr.m. Levite name 2 Ch 29:12 (𝔊 Ιω(α)δαν), 31:15 (𝔊 Οδομ, 𝔊L Ιαδαν).
III. n.pr.terr. (prob. associated by Heb. with i. עֵדֶן);—district in which lay garden of י׳, home of Adam and Eve: וַיִּטַּע גַּן־בְּעֵדֶן Gn 2:8, river יֹצֵא מֵע׳ v 10, קִדְמַת־ע׳ 4:16; גַּן־ע׳ 2:15; 3:23, 24 (all 𝔊 Εδεμ); cf. כְּגַן־ע׳ Ez 36:35 Jo 2:3 and כְּע׳ Is 51:3 (‖ גַּן־י׳), all sim. of fertility; ע׳ גַּן־אֱלֹהִים Ez 28:13, עֲצֵי ע׳ אֲשֶׁר בְּגַן הָאֱלֹהִים 31:9, עֲצֵי ע׳ v 16, 18(×2) (𝔊 Ez Jo ἡ τρυφή; Is παράδεισος).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עדן (ʻêden) (H5730) — luxury.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עִדָּן
- , v. עִידָּן
עָדַן
- (b. h.) [to turn, v. עוּד,] to be round, smooth, pliant. Pi. עִידֵּן
- 1. to make pliant; to bend. M. Kat. 16ᵇ (play on עדינו, II Sam. XXIII, 8) כשהיה … היה מְעַדֵּן עצמו וכ׳ when sitting and studying the Law, he made himself pliant like a worm, opp. מקשה עצמו stiffening one’s self. e.g. 2 Samuel 23:8
- 2. to smooth, lubricate, to improve (the complexion); to refresh, invigorate. Cant. R. to I, 2 מה שמן מְעַדֵּן … מְעַדְּנִים וכ׳ as oil brightens the appearance of the head and the body, so the words of the Law &c. Pes. 43ᵃ משיר … ומעדן את הבשר makes the hair fall out and improves the complexion. Y. Ber. VI, 10ᵇ top אשר … מעדנים לעַדֵּן בהן וכ׳ who created all sorts of delicacies to refresh therewith the soul &c. Gen. R. s. 16 עִדְּנוֹ מכל אילני וכ׳ he nursed him (with fruits) of all the trees of the garden of Eden; ib. לעַדְּנוֹ וכ׳ he had intended to nurse him &c. Sabb. 33ᵇ מרחצאות לעַדֵּן בהן עצמן (Ms. M. לֵעָרֵן בהן; Yalk. Ms. להִתְעַדֵּן, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) (the Romans have erected baths) for their own enjoyment (not for the benefit of the people); Ab. Zar. 2ᵇ; Yalk. Is. 316. Sifré Deut. 306 כל זמן … היו מערבים ומעדנים ומפנקים וכ׳ as long as my son does my will, humor him, nurse him and indulge him and give him to eat and to drink; Yalk. Deut. 942 היו מְעַדְּנִין וכ׳. Sifré l. c. מה רביבים … ומעדנים וכ׳ as the rains come down on the plants and brighten them and embellish them &c.; Yalk. l. c; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְעוּדָּן a) well-nursed, graceful. Y. Ned. IX, end, 41ᶜ (ref. to II Sam. I, 24) אין תכשיט … גוף מע׳ ornamentation becomes only a well-nursed (graceful) body.—b) indulged, used to luxuries. Mekh. Mishp. s. 8 אם היה מרוכך מע׳ מפונק if the wounded man was delicately reared, used to comfort and luxuries; Yalk. Ex. 339. e.g. 2 Samuel 1:24
- to surround, bind, connect. Gen. R. s. 10 (ref. to Job XXXVIII, 31 מעדנות וכ׳) כימה מַעֲדֶנֶת וכ׳ the Kimah binds (gives substance and shape to) the fruits; cmp. מָזַר. e.g. Job 38:31
- to be made smooth, pliable; to be rejuvenated; to be nursed, recover strength. B. Bath. 120ᵃ נ׳ הבשר ונתפשטו וכ׳ the body was again made smooth, the wrinkles of age were straightened out, and beauty returned &c.; Yalk. Ex. 165. Sabb. 33ᵇ, v. supra. Ned. 8ᵇ מִתְעַדְּנִין בה the righteous will be rejuvenated by it (by basking in the sun). Pesik. Haḥod., p. 102ᵃ יִתְעַדֵּן בני וכ׳ let my son be nursed with food and drink for two or three months; יִתְעַדְּנוּ בני וכ׳ let my children be nursed &c.; Cant. R. to II, 5; Koh. R. to III, 11; a. fr.
עֵדֶן
- preced.) refreshment, pleasure; esp. ע׳ or גַּן עֵ׳ (abbrev. ג"ע) the garden of Eden; paradise (of the hereafter). Gen. R. s. 15 (ref. to Gen. II, 8) גן גדול מע׳ the garden was larger than Eden, v. גַּן. Gen. R. s. 16 מכל אילני ג"ע, v. preced. Ber. 34ᵇ גן לחוד וע׳ לחוד the garden and Eden are two distinct things. Pes. 54ᵃ שבעה דברים … וג"ע וכ׳ seven things were created before the world was made: the Law, repentance, paradise, Gehenna, &c. Ber. l. c. (ref. to Is. LXIV, 3) זה ע׳ שלא וכ׳ that is Eden which no living creature’s eye has ever seen; Snh. 99ᵃ. Pes. 94ᵃ; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 2:8
עֵדֶן ²
- Targ. Gen. II, 8. Targ. Job XXXVIII, 18; a. fr.
עדן
- Y. Kidd. IV, 65ᵈ bot., v. מושהן
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms H5731 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֵ֑דֶן | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 31:18 | 3 |
| עֵ֔דֶן | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 31:9 | 3 |
| עֵ֜דֶן | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 31:18 | 2 |
| בְ/עֵ֖דֶן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 2:8 | 1 |
| בְּ/עֵ֨דֶן | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 28:13 | 1 |
| וְ/עֵ֖דֶן | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 29:12 | 1 |
| כְּ/עֵ֔דֶן | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 51:3 | 1 |
| מֵ/עֵ֔דֶן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 2:10 | 1 |
| עֵ֣דֶן | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 31:15 | 1 |
| עֵ֨דֶן | Noun, Proper | Joel 2:3 | 1 |
| עֵֽדֶן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 4:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5731, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Eden). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
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 Palestine, in Southern Arabia, and in Babylonia. The site must undoubtedly be sought for somewhere along the course of the great streams the Tigris and the Euphrates of Western Asia, in "the land of Shinar" or Babylonia. The region from about lat. 33 degrees 30' to lat. 31 degrees, which is a very rich and fertile tract, has been by the most competent authorities agreed on as the probable site of Eden. "It is a region where streams abound, where they divide and re-unite, where alone in the Mesopotamian tract can be found the phenomenon of a single river parting into four arms, each of which is or has been a river of consequence."
Among almost all nations there are traditions of the primitive innocence of our race in the garden of Eden. This was the "golden age" to which the Greeks looked back. Men then lived a "life free from care, and without labour and sorrow. Old age was unknown; the body never lost its vigour; existence was a perpetual feast without a taint of evil. The earth brought forth spontaneously all things that were good in profuse abundance."
(2.) One of the markets whence the merchants of Tyre obtained richly embroidered stuffs (Ezek. 27:23); the same, probably, as that mentioned in 2 Kings 19:12, and Isa. 37:12, as the name of a region conquered by the Assyrians.
(3.) Son of Joah, and one of the Levites who assisted in reforming the public worship of the sanctuary in the time of Hezekiah (2 Chr. 29:12).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
+ A Gershonite Levite, son of Joah, in the days of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 29:12) (B.C. 727.) + Also a Levite, probably identical with the preceding. (2 Chronicles 31:15)
(pleasure).
+ 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 (Genesis 2:8-14) In the eastern portion of the region of Eden was the garden planted. The Hiddekel, one of its rivers, is the modern Tigris; the Euphrates is the same as the modern Euphrates. With regard to the Pison and Gihon a great variety of opinion exists, but the best authorities are divided between (1) Eden as in northeast Arabia, at the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris, and their separation again, making the four rivers of the different channels of these two, or
(2), and most probably, Eden as situated in Armenia, near the origin of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, and in which same region rise the Araxes (Pison of Genesis) and the Oxus (Gihon). + One of the marts which supplied the luxury of Tyre with richly-embroidered stuffs. In (2 Kings 19:12) and Isai 37:12 "The sons of Eden" are mentioned with Gozan, Haran and Rezeph as victims of the Assyrian greed of conquest. Probability seems to point to the northwest of Mesopotamia as the locality of Eden. + BETH-EDEN, "house of pleasure:" probably the name of a country residence of the kings of Damascus. (Amos 1:5)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
pleasure; delight
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 15 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 15 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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