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Garden of Eden
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English
Etymology
en hbo גַּן עֵדֶן gan ʿḗḏen.
Pronunciation
en en-us-Garden of Eden.ogg Mid-Atlantic US
Proper noun
Garden of Eden Gardens of Eden 1
en Q19014 en Abrahamism In the Book of Genesis of the Bible and Surat Sad of the Qur'an, a garden at the source of the Gihon, Pishon, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers, where Adam and Eve first lived after being created.
en Paradise<id:Q19014> paradise<id:Q19014> earthly paradise<id:Q19014>
Genesis 3 23 24 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
en 1943 w:John A. Widtsoe Evidences and Reconciliations: Aids to Faith in a Modern Day Salt Lake City Bookcraft ch. 22 127 http://www.cumorah.com/language/evidencesandreconciliations.html Latter-day Saints know, through modern revelation, that the Garden of Eden was on the North American continent and that Adam and Eve began their conquest of the earth in the upper part of what is now the state of Missouri. https://web.archive.org/web/20250710231439/https://www.cumorah.com/language/evidencesandreconciliations.html 10 July 2025
en Western Fruit Grower 25/26 Western Farm Publications 1971 Up until two decades ago, the Garden of Eden was, we thought, in Eastern Ontario, where the McIntosh variety happened along. Probably Americans feel you had two Gardens of Eden, the first one being where the Red Delicious was discovered, and the second one, where the Golden Delicious was discovered. The Australians must have thought the Garden of Eden was somewhere in Australia, where the Granny Smith appeared. According to the Bible, however, there was only one Garden of Eden and probably the population explosion started there, but from that time onward, all control was lost of both apple production and population.
en w:George Szanto The Condesa of M. Cormorant Books Inc. 2001 173 https://archive.org/details/condesaofm0000szan/page/173/mode/1up 1-896951-31-7 “Were there many Gardens of Eden?” Surely! To read only of the biblical Adam and Eve is to grasp the story in this one way. In the hills they speak of the beginning as the time of the giants, another utopia. In eastern heathen lands, surely giants reigned in many Edens.
en Brook Wilensky-Lanford Practically Paradise Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden w:Grove Press 2011 978-0-8021-9563-0 For religious thinkers like William Warren and Landon West, the whole point of Eden was to unify mankind. To have two Gardens of Eden was worse than having none at all.
Derived terms
en Garden of Weeden
Translations
place where Adam and Eve first lived
Arabic: ar عَدْن, ar جَنَّة عَدْن f jannat ʕadn, ar جَنَّات عَدْن f-p
Basque: eu Eden
Breton: br liorzh Eden, br Eden
Catalan: ca Jardí de l'Edèn m
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 伊甸園 ji1 din6-1 jyun4
Hakka: hak 伊甸園 Yî-thien-yèn
Hokkien: nan-hbl 埃田園 Ai-tiân-hn̂g
Mandarin: cmn 伊甸園 Yīdiànyuán
Comorian:
Maore Comorian: swb zarde ya Eden c9
Danish: da Eden n, da Edens Have c, da Paradisets Have c
Dutch: nl hof van Eden m
Estonian: et Eedeni aed
Ewe: ee Eden-bɔ
Finnish: fi Eedenin puutarha
French: fr jardin d'Éden m, fr Éden m
Galician: gl Xardín do Edén m
German: de Garten Eden m
Greek: el Εδέμ
Ancient Greek: grc Ἐδέμ
Hebrew: he גַּן עֵדֶן m gan 'éden
Hindi: hi अदन की वाटिका f
Hungarian: hu édenkert, hu éden
Indonesian: id taman Eden
Irish: ga Gairdín Pharthais m, ga Gairdín Éidin m
Italian: it giardino dell'Eden m
Japanese: ja エデンの園 エデンのその, Eden no sono
Korean: ko ^에덴 동산
Ladino: lad ganedén m
Latin: la hortus in Eden m, la paradisus in Eden m, la paradisus voluptatis m
Latvian: lv Ēdenes dārzs m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Edens hage
Nynorsk: nn Edens hage, nn hagen i Eden
Portuguese: pt Jardim do Éden m
Romanian: ro Grădina Edenului f
Russian: ru Эде́м m Edɛ́m
Scottish Gaelic: gd Gàrradh Edein m, gd Gàradh Edein m
Spanish: es jardín de Edén m
Swahili: sw bustani ya Edeni c9
Swedish: sv Edens lustgård n the most well-known, older translation, sv Edens trädgård n newer translation
Ukrainian: uk Едем m
Welsh: cy Gardd Eden f
Yiddish: yi גן־עדן gan-eydn m
See also
en Adam's apple forbidden fruit original sin
Noun
Garden of Eden Gardens of Eden
en figuratively An idyllic place wherein innocence and perfection reign; any delightful region or abode; a pastoral utopia; an Arcadia.
en earthly paradise#Noun paradise#Noun rose garden#Noun
en The utopian socialists promised the peasants a Garden of Eden.
en figuratively A state or condition of unsullied innocence.
en cellular automata A pattern that can only exist as an initial state and is not attainable from any other state.
en 1986 Patrick Chenin; Claire Di Crescenzo; François Robert Computers and Computing: Proceedings 181 In this paper the author presents some properties regarding the existence or non-existence of gardens of Eden for the cellular automata.
en 1989-10-20 Rajeev Pandey hints and topics, anyone? comp.theory.cell-automata https://groups.google.com/g/comp.theory.cell-automata/c/Tye64pHeYuU/m/aciKIbqMBzcJ I have gotten interested in Garden-of-Eden configurations in Life. All that I have been able to uncover thus far is that there are 2 know configurations:
en 2004 The Garden of Eden Theorem for Cellular Automata and for Symbolic Dynamical Systems Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein Francesca Fiorenzi; Fabio Scarabotti Random Walks and Geometry: Proceedings of a Workshop at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, June 18 - July 13, 2001 Vadim A. Kaimanovich Walter de Gruyter 9783110198089 25415217M A configuration e not in the image of τ, namely e ∈ C \ τ[C] is called a Garden of Eden (briefly GOE) configuration, this biblical terminology being motivated by the fact that GOE configurations only appear as initial configurations.
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