Eve is from the Hebrew Chavah (חַוָּה) — from the root chai (life) — "to breathe, to live." The biblical Eve — the first woman, fashioned from Adam's side in the Garden of Eden, mother of Cain, Abel, and Seth, and through her sons the ancestress of all humanity (Genesis 2-4). "And Adam called his wife's name Chavah, because she was the mother of all living" (Genesis 3:20). Her conversation with the serpent and the eating of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is among the most painted scenes in Western art — by Michelangelo, Dürer, Cranach, Masaccio, and Klimt. Eve in mitochondrial genetics — "Mitochondrial Eve" — is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor of all living humans, who lived in Africa approximately 155,000 years ago. A top-1000 US baby name continuously since records began.
Subject of countless biblical commentaries and John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667).
Eve reduces to seven — the number of mother of all living.