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"Eden" in Hebrew is Eden - ayin-dalet-nun - not
"Eden" in Hebrew is Eden - ayin-dalet-nun - not
"Aten". According to the New User-Friendly Hebrew-English Dictionary, eden means pleasure, delicacy; Eden, paradise. Nahum Sarna in the JPS Torah Commentary on Genesis, notes that the Septuagint translated the Hebrew word for "garden" - gan (gimel-nun) - as "paradeisos", "a term that originated in the Old Persian pairi-daeza, meaning 'an enclosed park, a pleasure ground'". "Eden", Sarna continues, "has been derived from the Sumerian edinu, 'a plain,' but an Aramaic-Akkadian bilingual inscription suggests that the real meaning is 'luxuriance'".
"Aten". According to the New User-Friendly Hebrew-English Dictionary, eden means pleasure, delicacy; Eden, paradise. Nahum Sarna in the JPS Torah Commentary on Genesis, notes that the Septuagint translated the Hebrew word for "garden" - gan (gimel-nun) - as "paradeisos", "a term that originated in the Old Persian pairi-daeza, meaning 'an enclosed park, a pleasure ground'". "Eden", Sarna continues, "has been derived from the Sumerian edinu, 'a plain,' but an Aramaic-Akkadian bilingual inscription suggests that the real meaning is 'luxuriance'". Ahavah, 8 July 2007