Adam named her Eve
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Καὶ ἐκάλεσεν Ἀδὰμ τὸ ὄνομα τῆς γυναικὸς Ζωή, ὅτι αὕτη μήτηρ πάντων τῶν ζώντων.
In the midst of judgment, a hopeful act: Adam names his wife Ζωή, "Life" — the Greek rendering of Hebrew חַוָּה (Ḥawwāh, "Eve"), itself linked in the Hebrew text to the verb ḥāyâ, "to live." The naming looks forward, past the sentence just pronounced, to generations still to come: she is called "mother of all the living" even as mortality has just been announced as the human condition.
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