(Moses) the name of a country, with a garden, in which the progenitors of mankind were settled by God himself: The term denotes pleasure or delight. It would be endless to recount the several opinions concerning its situation, some of them very wild and extravagant. Moses says, that "a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted and became into four heads." The river is supposed to be the common channel of the Euphrates and Tigris, after their confluence; which parted again, below the garden, into two different channels; so that the two channels before, and the other two after their confluence, constitute the heads mentioned by Moses. Which will determine the situation of the garden to have been in the south of Mesopotamia, or in Babylonia. The garden was also called Paradise; a term of Persic original, denoting a garden. See PARADISE.