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McMahon or MacMahon (/ m ə k ˈ m æ n / mək-MAN or / m ə k ˈ m ɑː n / mək-MAHN; older Irish orthography: Mac Mathghamhna; reformed Irish orthography: Mac Mathúna; meaning "son of the bear") [1] is an Irish surname.
Vaughan and Vaughn are surnames, originally Welsh, though also used as a form of the Irish surname McMahon. [1] Vaughan derives from the Welsh word bychan, meaning "small", and so corresponds to the English name Little and the Breton cognate Bihan. The word mutates to Fychan (Welsh:) an identifier for a younger sibling or next of kin.
McMahon, also spelt MacMahon (older Irish orthography: Mac Mathghamhna; reformed Irish orthography: Mac Mathúna), were different Middle Age era Irish clans. Their name is derived from the Gaelic Mac Mathghamhna meaning 'son of the bear '. [ 1 ]
The name is mentioned twice in the Hebrew Bible, both times in the Book of Isaiah chapter 8: [3] Isaiah 8:1. Moreover the L ORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz. [4] Isaiah 8:3. And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived and bore a son.
Depiction of Irad in the Nuremberg Chronicle. Irad (עִירָד , Irad) is a name in Hebrew.In the Book of Genesis, the grandson of Cain is Irad.. Genesis 4:18, in a genealogical passage about the descendants of Cain, contains the only reference to Irad in the Bible: "To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael the father of Methushael, and Methushael the ...
In Hebrew orthography, niqqud or nikud (Hebrew: נִקּוּד, Modern: nikúd, Tiberian: niqqūḏ, "dotting, pointing" or Hebrew: נְקֻדּוֹת, Modern: nekudót, Tiberian: nəquddōṯ, "dots") is a system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
The surname Monaghan is an anglicization of the Irish surname O'Manacháin / oʊ ˈ m ɒ n ə h æ n /. The Irish translation for this name is descendant of Manacháin, which ultimately translates to "Monk". Other variations include Monahan and Monachan.
Reu or Ragau (Hebrew: רְעוּ, romanized: Rəʿū; Biblical Greek: Ῥαγαύ, romanized: Rhagaú), according to Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, was the son of Peleg and the father of Serug, thus being Abraham's great-great-grandfather and the ancestor of the Israelites and Ishmaelites.