eve
part of speech
noun (an eve, eves; Eve — a name)
meaning for a pupil
1) The day or evening before a special day: Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve. tree →
2) The time just before an important event: on the eve of the match. tree →
3) (old or poetry) Evening. tree →
4) Eve — a girl's name; in the Bible, the first woman. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Eve is the first woman, wife of Adam; the name means "life", for she was the mother of all living. Eve in the last line is the day before, the Sabbath eve. Interpretation: The Hebrew name Chavah is tied to the word for life. The Sabbath begins at sunset on Friday evening, so its eve is a time of preparation and study. In the primary lessons: In everyday life families celebrate Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve; in stories «on the eve of the battle» means the night before. Phrases: «Christmas Eve», «New Year's Eve», «on the eve of».
examples
- And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. (Torah GEN.3.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain, and said: 'I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.' (Torah GEN.4.1, JPS 1917) tree →
- Rabbi Hanina and Rabbi Oshaiah sat the entire eve of the Sabbath studying the Sefer Yetzirah and created a three-year old calf, and ate it' . . . (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- We open one present on Christmas Eve. tree →
- On New Year's Eve we stayed up until midnight. tree →
- On the eve of the final, the players went to bed early. tree →
- Eve is my best friend's name. tree →
- The streets were busy on the eve of the holiday. tree →
- In the old poem, the farmer came home at eve. tree →
note
Capital letter in festival names (Christmas Eve) and for the name Eve. Not the same as «even» or «evening». In time problems, Christmas Eve is the day just before Christmas Day.
In the corpora
- And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
- Adam and Eve are the first man and woman in the Bible, made by God and placed in the Garden of Eden.
- God told Adam and Eve they could eat from every tree except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- The serpent persuaded Eve that God was keeping something good from her; she ate the fruit and gave some to Adam.
- After eating, Adam and Eve hid from God; Adam blamed Eve, and Eve blamed the serpent.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «eve» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.