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Johanan (name) Yohanan יוֹחָנָן ( Yôḥānān ), sometimes transcribed as Johanan is Hebrew male given name that can also appear in the longer form of יְהוֹחָנָן ( Yəhôḥānān ), meaning " YHWH is gracious ". The name is ancient, recorded as the name of Johanan, high priest of the Second Temple around 400 BCE.
Joan (female name: / dʒoʊn /; male name: [ (d)ʒuˈan]) is both a feminine form of the personal name John given to females in the Anglosphere; and the native masculine form of John (for males) in the Catalan - Valencian and Occitan languages. In both cases, the name is derived from the Greek via the Latin Ioannes and Ioanna (or Johannes and Johanna ), and is thus cognate with John and ...
The name John is a theophoric name originating from the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן ( Yôḥānān ), or in its longer form יְהוֹחָנָן ( Yəhôḥānān ), meaning " YHWH has been gracious". [1] Several obscure figures in the Old Testament bore this name, and it grew in popularity once borne by the high priest Johanan (fl. 407 BC) and especially by King John Hyrcanus (d. 104 ...
Jewish names, specifically one's given name, have varied over time and by location and ethnic group. Other types of names used by Jewish people include the surname and the religious name known as the Hebrew name.
To indicate a double meaning, where both the gematria of the word or phrase should be taken, as well as the plain meaning. For example, to give chai חַ״י (meaning “life” as pronounced, and "eighteen" as a gematria) dollars to tzedakah means to give eighteen dollars to tzedakah, thereby giving another person life, and drawing the ...
Simon is a given name, from Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן Šimʻôn, meaning "listen" or "hearing". It is also a classical Greek name, deriving from an adjective meaning "flat-nosed".
Jewish English Lexicon ( JEL) is an online dictionary of the language spoken by Jewish English speakers, encompassesing a varied assortment of terms that originate from ancient and modern Hebrew, Aramaic, Yiddish, Ladino, Arabic, among other languages.
Beulah ( ⫽ ˈbjuːlə ⫽ BEW-lə ), a feminine given name, originated from the Hebrew word ( בְּעוּלָ֑ה bə‘ūlāh ), used in the Book of Isaiah as a prophesied attribute of the land of Israel.