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unusual facts about Hebrew name


Boaz Myhill

Myhill's parents originally intended to name him Boaz, a Hebrew name which they encountered and liked while travelling in Israel, but were dissuaded from doing so by relatives.



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Betar

The name Betar בית"ר refers to both the last Jewish fort to fall in the Bar Kokhba revolt (136 AD) and to the altered Hebrew name of "Brit Yosef Trumpeldor" ( ברית יוסף תרומפלדור ).

Bible translations into Japanese

Throughout New World Translation in Japanese, the publishers chose to use the name Ehoba, a Japanized form of Jehovah (itself a translation of the Hebrew name represented by the Tetragrammaton).

God with us

Immanuel (עִמָּנוּאֵל), the Hebrew name meaning 'God is with us'

IAI Scout

The IAI Scout (known in Israel under its Hebrew name זהבן - "Oriole") is a reconnaissance unmanned air vehicle developed in Israel in the 1970s by Israel Aircraft Industries as a competitor to the Tadiran Mastiff.

Isaac ben Moses

Profiat Duran (c. 1350-1415) (Hebrew name Isaac ben Moses ha-Levi), physician and philosopher

Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi

His Provençal name was En Bonet, which probably corresponds to the Hebrew name Tobiah (compare Oheb Nashim in the Zunz Jubelschrift, Hebrew part, p. 1); and, according to the practice of the Provençal Jews, he occasionally joined to his name that of his father, Abraham Profiat (Bedersi).

Norea

The name is thought to derive from a translation of Naamah, a Hebrew name which means "pleasant".

Tetragram

the Tetragrammaton, the Hebrew name for God, sometimes written as YHWH (four letters)

Yaqub-Har

In Exodus Decoded filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici suggested that he was the Patriarch Jacob on the basis of a signet ring found in the Hyksos capital Avaris that read "Yakov/Yakub" (from Yaqub-her), similar to the Hebrew name of the Biblical patriarch Jacob (Ya'aqov).

Yotvata

:"Shawn the shet " is also the Hebrew name for Tiran Island.