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Names play a variety of roles in the Bible. They sometimes relate to the nominee's role in a biblical narrative , as in the case of Nabal , a foolish man whose name means "fool". [ 1 ] Names in the Bible can represent human hopes, divine revelations , or are used to illustrate prophecies .
Margaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl".It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Old Iranian. [1] It has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages.
"Names for the Nameless", in The Oxford Companion to the Bible, Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan, editors. ISBN 0-19-504645-5; Ilan, Tal. “Biblical Women’s Names in the Apocryphal Traditions.” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 6, no. 11 (1993): 3–67. "The Poem of the Man God", Centro Editoriale Valtortiano srl, Maria ...
Marjorie is a medieval variant of Margery, influenced by the name of the herb marjoram. It came into English from the Old French, from the Latin Margarita (pearl). After the Middle Ages this name was rare, but it was revived at the end of the 19th century. [citation needed] Short forms of the name include Marge, Margie, Marj and Jorie.
This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with G in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links.
Maggie Wahlgren, a character on The Loud House; Maggie Walsh, on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Maggie, a main character in the American comic strip Bringing Up Father; Maggie, the Cardcaptors name for the Cardcaptor Sakura character Maki Matsumoto; Maggie, the human protagonist of the Canadian animated TV series Maggie and the ...
Meaning: House of Bread Village name from 587 BC through the time of Christ: Aramaic: בית לחם Pronunciation: Beit Lekhem Meaning: House of Bread Beth Shemesh: Village Paleo-Hebrew: 𐤁𐤉𐤕𐤔𐤌𐤔 Pronunciation: Bayawt Shamawsh Meaning: House of Sun Caesar, Augustus (son of Gaius Octavius & Atia) Person 63 BC: AD 14
Maggie, nickname for Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990; Maggie, Australian magpie in Australian English; Maggie's, Scottish charity which runs Maggie's Centres; Maggie the Monkey (born 1991), a macaque at the Bowmanville Zoo; Maggie (astronomy), cloud of hydrogen gas located in our (Milky Way) galaxy