"Outlined below are five things about Eve which you may not have known before:
1. Eve is not her real name:
Adam is called Adam in Hebrew,
but Eve is not actually called Eve.
In
the Garden of Eden, when addressing her husband by name, she would have
used ‘Adam’. Whereas Adam would not have referred to her as ‘Eve’, but
as ‘Haw-wah’, her name as transliterated from Biblical Hebrew. (The
opening ‘h’ is a 
guttural sound, sometimes written as ‘ch’ or ‘kh’.). ‘Eve’, the Hebrew word is חַוָּ֑ה. When
transliterated today based on the way it is pronounced by modern Hebrew
speakers, this is written as Havah or Chavah. (The sound shift of ‘w’ to
‘v’ has occurred in many languages over time.) Havah is linked to the
Hebrew word for life.
Jerome translated this from Hebrew and Greek in the 4th century AD.
It became the most widely used Bible translation in western
Christianity for over a thousand years. In the Latin Vulgate, Havah was
transliterated quite closely as Hava or Heva in the Old Testament. The
opening ‘h’ later became essentially silent in Ecclesiastical Latin. In
the New Testament, it was translated from the Greek as Eva. From Eva
came the later anglicized version Eve. The name Eve as we pronounce it
today would have been unknown to Adam.
2. Eve was not just the mother of boys:
Not only was Eve the first woman and wife, but also the first mother.
The Bible tells us that Eve had three boys: Cain, Abel, 
and Seth. It
also states
that Adam fathered other sons, and daughters. Adam named his wife Havah
(see point 1) as she would be the mother of all living and so her daughters became the first naturally born women.
Mitochondrial DNA is passed on through the female line. Studies of
mitochondrial DNA from people groups around the world have shown that
all women alive today can trace their ancestry back to one woman (called
mitochondrial Eve).
3. Eve looked different from historical depictions:
Eve has historically been depicted as a Caucasian (‘white’ skin 
tone) in
Western art. Skin tone depends on a coloring pigment called melanin.
How much or how little someone can produce will dictate how dark or
light their skin is. Humanity is one race, all members of which descend
from Adam and Eve. They were created with the full range of skin tone
available from a combination of their genes, which was most likely
expressed as mid-brown in themselves.
4. Eve thought she gave birth to the Messiah:
Eve mistakenly applies God’s promise to Cain. Genesis 4:1
reads, “Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain,
saying, ‘I have produced a man with the help of the Lord’”. In Hebrew,
Eve literally says, “I have the Man, the Lord”. Looking expectantly
forward to God’s promise, her words show that she thinks “the Man” she
has just given birth to is the promised redeemer."
CMI
