Garden of Eden

Garden of Eden

English

Etymology

Calque of Biblical Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן‎ (gan ʿḗḏen).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Garden of Eden

1. (Abrahamic religions) 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.

   Synonym: paradise

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 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.

   • 1943, Widtsoe, John A., Evidences and Reconciliations: Aids to Faith in a Modern Day‎, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, ch. 22, page 127:

     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.

Translations

place where Adam and Eve first lived

Arabic: عَدْن‎ (ʿadn), جَنَّة عَدْن‎ f (jannat ʿadn), جَنَّات عَدْن‎ f pl (jannāt ʿadn) Basque: Eden Catalan: Jardí de l'Edèn m Chinese: Cantonese: 伊甸園, 伊甸园 (ji1 din6-1 jyun4) Hakka: 伊甸園, 伊甸园 (Yî-thien-yèn) Mandarin: 伊甸園／伊甸园 (zh) (Yīdiànyuán) Min Nan: 埃田園, 埃田园 (Ai-tiân-hn̂g) Danish: Eden n, Edens Have c, Paradisets Have c Dutch: hof van Eden m Estonian: Eedeni aed Ewe: Eden-bɔ Finnish: Eedenin puutarha French: jardin d'Éden (fr) m German: Garten Eden m Greek: Εδέμ (el) (Edém) Ancient: Ἐδέμ (Edém) Hebrew: גַּן עֵדֶן‎ (he) m (gan 'éden) Hungarian: édenkert, éden (hu) Irish: Gairdín Pharthais m, Gairdín Éidin m Italian: giardino dell'Eden m Japanese: エデンの園 (エデンのその, Eden no sono) Korean: 에덴 동산 (Eden dongsan) Ladino: ganedén m Latin: hortus in Eden m, paradisus in Eden m, paradisus voluptatis m Latvian: Ēdenes dārzs m Maore Comorian: zarde ya Eden class 9 Norwegian: Bokmål: Edens hage Nynorsk: Edens hage, hagen i Eden Portuguese: Jardim do Éden m Romanian: Grădina Edenului f Russian: Эде́м (ru) m (Edɛ́m) Spanish: jardín de Edén m Swahili: bustani ya Edeni class 9 Swedish: Edens trädgård c Ukrainian: Едем m (Edem) Welsh: Gardd Eden f Yiddish: גן־עדן‎ m (gan-eydn)

Noun

Garden of Eden (plural Gardens of Eden)

1. (cellular automata) A pattern that can only exist as an initial state and is not reachable from any other state.
   • 1986, Patrick Chenin, ‎Claire Di Crescenzo, ‎François Robert, Computers and Computing: Proceedings (page 181)

     In this paper the author presents some properties regarding the existence or non-existence of gardens of Eden for the cellular automata.

   • 2004, Ceccherini-Silberstein, Tullio; Francesca Fiorenzi, Fabio Scarabotti, “The Garden of Eden Theorem for Cellular Automata and for Symbolic Dynamical Systems”, in Vadim A. Kaimanovich, editor, Random Walks and Geometry: Proceedings of a Workshop at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, June 18 - July 13, 2001, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, OL 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.