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Statements consisting only of original research should be removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2010</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>A <b>theophoric name</b> (from <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B8%CE%B5%CF%8C%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82" class="extiw" title="wikt:θεόφορος">θεόφορος</a></span></span>, <i>theophoros</i>, literally "bearing or carrying a god")<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> embeds the word equivalent of 'god' or God's name in a person's name, reflecting something about the character of the person so named in relation to that deity. For example, names embedding <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a>, such as <i>Apollonios</i> or <i>Apollodorus</i>, existed in Greek antiquity.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Theophoric personal names, containing the name of a god in whose care the individual is entrusted (or a generic word for <i>god</i>), were also exceedingly common in the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Near_East" title="Ancient Near East">ancient Near East</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some names of theophoric origin remain common today, such as <a href="/wiki/Theodore_(given_name)" title="Theodore (given name)">Theodore</a> (<i>theo-</i>, "god"; <i>-dore</i>, origin of word compound in Greek: <i>doron</i>, "gift"; hence "God's gift"; in Greek: <i>Theodoros</i>) or, less recognisably, <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_(name)" title="Jonathan (name)">Jonathan</a> (from <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a> <i>Yonatan/Yehonatan</i>, meaning "Yahweh has given"). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Classical_Greek_and_Roman_theophoric_names">Classical Greek and Roman theophoric names</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theophoric_name&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Classical Greek and Roman theophoric names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Theophoric_name" title="Special:EditPage/Theophoric name">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">August 2021</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Greek and Roman theophoric names </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" style="width: 90pt;">Deity </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 90pt;">Name </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 120pt;">Meaning </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Aphrodite" title="Aphrodite">Aphrodite</a> </td> <td>Aphrodisius, -a </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hermaphroditus" title="Hermaphroditus">Hermaphroditus</a> </td> <td>"Hermes and Aphrodite" </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Apollodorus" title="Apollodorus">Apollodorus</a>, -a </td> <td>"gift of Apollo" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Apollonides_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Apollonides (disambiguation)">Apollonides</a> </td> <td>"son of Apollo" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Apollonius" title="Apollonius">Apollonius</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ares" title="Ares">Ares</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Arius" title="Arius">Arius</a> </td> <td>"war-like" </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Artemiche" title="Artemiche">Artemiche</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Artemidorus" title="Artemidorus">Artemidorus</a> </td> <td>"gift of Artemis" </td></tr> <tr> <td>Artemisius, -ia </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Athenaeus" title="Athenaeus">Athenaeus</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Athenais" title="Athenais">Athenais</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Athenagoras_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Athenagoras (disambiguation)">Athenagoras</a> </td> <td>"man in Athena's market" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Athenodorus_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Athenodorus (disambiguation)">Athenodorus</a>, -a </td> <td>"gift of Athena" </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Cephissus_(mythology)" title="Cephissus (mythology)">Cephissus</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cephisodorus" title="Cephisodorus">Cephisodorus</a> </td> <td>"gift of Cephissus" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Cephisodotus_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Cephisodotus (disambiguation)">Cephisodotus</a> </td> <td>"given by Cephissus" </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Demeter" title="Demeter">Demeter</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Demetrius" title="Demetrius">Demetrius</a>, -ia </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Demetrodorus </td> <td>"gift of Demeter" </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dionysius" title="Dionysius">Dionysius</a>, -a, <a href="/wiki/Dennis" title="Dennis">Dennis</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Dionysodorus, -a </td> <td>"gift of Dionysus" </td></tr> <tr> <td>Dionysicles </td> <td>"glory of Dionysus" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Fortuna" title="Fortuna">Fortuna</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fortunatus" title="Fortunatus">Fortunatus</a> </td> <td>"fortunate, lucky" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hecate" title="Hecate">Hecate</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hecataeus_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Hecataeus (disambiguation)">Hecataeus</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Helios" title="Helios">Helios</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Heliodorus" title="Heliodorus">Heliodorus</a> </td> <td>"gift of the Sun" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hephaestus" title="Hephaestus">Hephaestus</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hephaestion" title="Hephaestion">Hephaestion</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">"glory of Hera" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Heraclitus_(disambiguation)" title="Heraclitus (disambiguation)">Heraclitus</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a> </td> <td>"given by Hera" </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="7"><a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a> </td> <td>Hermaphroditus </td> <td>"Hermes and Aphrodite" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hermesianax_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Hermesianax (disambiguation)">Hermesianax</a> </td> <td>"king Hermes" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hermione_(given_name)" title="Hermione (given name)">Hermione</a>, Hermion </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hermippus" title="Hermippus">Hermippus</a> </td> <td>"horse of Hermes" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hermocrates" title="Hermocrates">Hermocrates</a> </td> <td>"strength of Hermes" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hermogenes" title="Hermogenes">Hermogenes</a> </td> <td>"born of Hermes" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hermolaus_of_Macedon" title="Hermolaus of Macedon">Hermolaus</a> </td> <td>"people of Hermes" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Isis" title="Isis">Isis</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Isidorus" title="Isidorus">Isidorus</a>, -a </td> <td>"gift of Isis" </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Mars_(mythology)" title="Mars (mythology)">Mars</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Marcus_(name)" title="Marcus (name)">Marcus</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Martialis" class="mw-redirect" title="Martialis">Martialis</a> </td> <td>"Mars-like" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Martin_(name)" title="Martin (name)">Martinus</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mene_(goddess)" title="Mene (goddess)">Mene</a> (<a href="/wiki/Selene" title="Selene">Selene</a>) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Menodora,_Metrodora,_and_Nymphodora" title="Menodora, Metrodora, and Nymphodora">Menodora</a> </td> <td>"gift of the Moon" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Minerva" title="Minerva">Minerva</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Minervina" title="Minervina">Minervina</a> </td> <td>"little Minerva" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nymph" title="Nymph">Nymphs</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Menodora,_Metrodora,_and_Nymphodora" title="Menodora, Metrodora, and Nymphodora">Nymphodora</a> </td> <td>"gift of the nymphs" </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Poseidippus" title="Poseidippus">Poseidippus</a> </td> <td>"horse of Poseidon" </td></tr> <tr> <td>Poseidorus, -a </td> <td>"gift of Poseidon" </td></tr> <tr> <td>Poseidonius </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Serapis" title="Serapis">Serapis</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Serapion_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Serapion (disambiguation)">Serapion</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Themis" title="Themis">Themis</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Themistocles" title="Themistocles">Themistocles</a> </td> <td>"glory of Themis" </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="6"><a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dio_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Dio (disambiguation)">Dio</a> </td> <td>of Zeus (gen. <i>Dios</i>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Diocles_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Diocles (disambiguation)">Diocles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Diocletian" title="Diocletian">Diocletian</a> </td> <td>"glory of Zeus" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Diodorus" class="mw-redirect" title="Diodorus">Diodorus</a> </td> <td>"gift of Zeus" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Zeno_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Zeno (disambiguation)">Zeno</a> </td> <td>of Zeus (gen. <i>Zenos</i>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Zenobius" title="Zenobius">Zenobius</a>, -ia </td> <td>"might of Zeus" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Zenodotus" title="Zenodotus">Zenodotus</a> </td> <td>"given by Zeus" </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Certain names of classical gods are sometimes given as personal names. The most common is <a href="/wiki/Diana_(given_name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Diana (given name)">Diana</a> and its variants, such as <a href="/wiki/Diane_(given_name)" title="Diane (given name)">Diane</a>; others include <a href="/wiki/Minerva_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minerva (mythology)">Minerva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aphrodite" title="Aphrodite">Aphrodite</a>, <a href="/wiki/Venus_(mythology)" title="Venus (mythology)">Venus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isis" title="Isis">Isis</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Juno_(mythology)" title="Juno (mythology)">Juno</a>. The first <a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">pope</a> to take a <a href="/wiki/Regnal_name" title="Regnal name">regnal name</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_II" title="Pope John II">Pope John II</a>, had the given name <a href="/wiki/Mercury_(god)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mercury (god)">Mercurius</a> and changed his name as he considered it inappropriate for the pope to have a pagan deity's name. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Christian_theophoric_names">Christian theophoric names</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theophoric_name&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Christian theophoric names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Theophoric_name" title="Special:EditPage/Theophoric name">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">August 2021</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Masih_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Abdul Masih (disambiguation)">Abdelmasih</a>: (Arabic) "servant of the Messiah"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdisho_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdisho (disambiguation)">Abdisho</a>: (Syriac) "servant of Jesus"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahadabui" title="Ahadabui">Ahadabui</a>, also <i>Ahidabu</i>: (Syriac) "brother to the Father"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_bishops_of_Edessa#Jacobite" title="List of bishops of Edessa">Ahischema</a>: (Syriac) "brother of the <a href="/wiki/Schema_(Orthodoxy)#Great_Schema" class="mw-redirect" title="Schema (Orthodoxy)">schema</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aitillaha_of_Bet-Nuhadra#Life" class="mw-redirect" title="Aitillaha of Bet-Nuhadra">Aitillaha</a>: (Syriac) "God exists"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amadeus_(name)" title="Amadeus (name)">Amadeus</a>: (Latin) "lover of God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ataullah" title="Ataullah">Attallah</a>: (Arabic) "gift of God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bakht%C4%ABsh%C5%AB%E2%80%98" class="mw-redirect" title="Bakhtīshū‘">Bakhtishu</a>: (Syriac) "redeemed by Jesus"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bogdan" title="Bogdan">Bogdan</a>: (Slavic) "God given"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bogomil_(name)" title="Bogomil (name)">Bogomil</a>: (Slavic) "dear to God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bozhidar" title="Bozhidar">Bozhidar</a>: (Slavic) "gift of God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_(given_name)" title="Christian (given name)">Christian</a>: (Greek) "believer in Christ"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christodoulos" title="Christodoulos">Christodoulos</a>: (Greek) "servant of Christ"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Christopher (name)">Christopher</a>: (Greek) "Christ-bearer".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deusdedit_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Deusdedit (disambiguation)">Deodatus/Deusdedit</a>: (Latin) "God-given"</li> <li>Dorotheus/<a href="/wiki/Dorothea" title="Dorothea">Dorothea</a>: (Greek) "gift to God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Furchgott" title="Furchgott">Fürchtgott</a>: (Germanic) "God-fearing"</li> <li>Gebreamlak: (Ge'ez) "servant of God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_(given_name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Geoffrey (given name)">Geoffrey</a>/<a href="/wiki/Gottfried" title="Gottfried">Gottfried</a>: (Germanic) "God's peace"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gottlieb_(name)" title="Gottlieb (name)">Gottlieb</a>: (Germanic) "God's love"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ishodad_of_Merv" title="Ishodad of Merv">Ishodad</a>: (Syriac) "given by Jesus"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isho%CA%BFsabran" title="Ishoʿsabran">Ishosabran</a> or <i>Sabrisho:</i> (Syriac) "patient for Jesus"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isho%27yahb_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Isho'yahb (disambiguation)">Ishoyahb</a> or <i>Yahbisho</i>: (Syriac) "Jesus has given"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adiabene_(East_Syriac_ecclesiastical_province)" title="Adiabene (East Syriac ecclesiastical province)">Marnazka</a>: (Syriac) "the Lord has conquered"</li> <li>Philothea/<a href="/wiki/Philothei" class="mw-redirect" title="Philothei">Philothei</a>/<a href="/wiki/Philotheos_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Philotheos (disambiguation)">Philotheos</a>: (Greek) "lover of God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabrisho_I" title="Sabrisho I">Sabrisho</a> or <i>Ishosabran:</i> (Syriac) "patient for Jesus"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shubhalisho%CA%BF" title="Shubhalishoʿ">Shubhalisho</a>, also <i>Shubhisho</i>: (Syriac) "praise to Jesus"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shenouda_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shenouda (disambiguation)">Shenouda</a>: (Coptic) "son of God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sliba-zkha" title="Sliba-zkha">Slibazka</a>: (Syriac) "the Cross has conquered"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodore (name)">Theodore</a>/<a href="/wiki/Theodora_(given_name)" title="Theodora (given name)">Theodora</a>: (Greek) "gift of God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodosius_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodosius (disambiguation)">Theodosius</a>/<a href="/wiki/Theodosia_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Theodosia (disambiguation)">Theodosia</a>, Theodotos/Theodotē and <a href="/wiki/Dositheus_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dositheus (disambiguation)">Dositheus</a>/Dosithea: (Greek) "God-given"</li> <li>Theodotus: (Greek): "given by God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodulus" title="Theodulus">Theodulus</a>: (Greek) "servant of God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theophilus_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Theophilus (disambiguation)">Theophilus</a>: (Greek) "one who loves God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theognis" class="mw-redirect" title="Theognis">Theognis</a>: (Greek) "God-knowing"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theophanes_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Theophanes (disambiguation)">Theophanes/Theophania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tiffany_(given_name)" title="Tiffany (given name)">Tiffany</a>: (Greek) "manifestation of God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theophobos" title="Theophobos">Theophobus</a>: (Greek) "one who fears God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theophrastus" title="Theophrastus">Theophrastus</a>: (Greek) "godly speech"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theaetetus_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Theaetetus (disambiguation)">Theaetetus</a>: (Greek) "one who pleads to God"</li> <li>Timothy/<a href="/wiki/Timotheus_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Timotheus (disambiguation)">Timotheus</a>: (Greek) "one who honors God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yahballaha" title="Yahballaha">Yahballaha</a>: (Syriac) "God has given"</li></ul> <p>Some Christian saints have polytheistic theophoric names (such as <a href="/wiki/Saint_Dionysius" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Dionysius">Saint Dionysius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint_Mercurius" title="Saint Mercurius">Saint Mercurius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint_Saturninus_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Saint Saturninus (disambiguation)">Saint Saturninus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint_Hermes" title="Saint Hermes">Saint Hermes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Martin_of_Tours" title="Martin of Tours">Saint Martin of Tours</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint_Demetrius_of_Thessaloniki" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki">Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Germanic_theophoric_names">Germanic theophoric names</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theophoric_name&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Germanic theophoric names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Theophoric_name" title="Special:EditPage/Theophoric name">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">August 2021</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aesir" class="mw-redirect" title="Aesir">Os</a>, meaning "god" <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_(given_name)" title="Oscar (given name)">Oscar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oslac_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Oslac (name)">Oslac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oswald_(given_name)" title="Oswald (given name)">Oswald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oswine_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Oswine (disambiguation)">Oswin</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thor" title="Thor">Thor</a>, the god of thunder <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Torsten" class="mw-redirect" title="Torsten">Thorstein</a> means "Thor's stone"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thorkel" title="Thorkel">Thorkel</a> means "Thor's craft"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thorulf" class="mw-redirect" title="Thorulf">Thorulf</a> means "Thor's wolf"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thordis" class="mw-redirect" title="Thordis">Thordis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thora_(given_name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thora (given name)">Thora</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yngvi" title="Yngvi">Ing</a>, an old name for <a href="/wiki/Freyr" title="Freyr">Freyr</a> (an epithet meaning "lord") <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ingrid_(given_name)" title="Ingrid (given name)">Ingrid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ingeborg" title="Ingeborg">Ingeborg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inger_(given_name)" title="Inger (given name)">Inger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ingunn" title="Ingunn">Ingunn</a></li></ul></li></ul> <p>Rarely, Germanic names contain the element <i><a href="/wiki/Odhr" class="mw-redirect" title="Odhr">Wod</a></i> (such as <i>Woðu-riðe</i>), potentially pointing to an association with the god <a href="/wiki/Odin" title="Odin">Odin</a>. In connection, numerous names containing <i>wulf</i> "wolf" have been taken as totemistic, expressing association with Odin in the earliest period, although <i>-ulf</i> degenerated into a mere suffix from an early time (Förstemann 1856). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hinduism">Hinduism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theophoric_name&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Hinduism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Theophoric_name" title="Special:EditPage/Theophoric name">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">August 2021</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The personal names of almost all gods and goddesses of various deities from the polytheistic Hindu pantheon are considered common and traditional names for people from the Indian subcontinent. Many traditional Hindu names are in fact from various names or epithets of Hindu gods or goddesses. This is in addition to compound theophoric names using the name of a deity in addition to possessive qualifiers. </p> <ul><li>Names of gods that are also used as personal names include <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vishnu" title="Vishnu">Vishnu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shiva" title="Shiva">Shiva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshmi" title="Lakshmi">Lakshmi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parvati" title="Parvati">Parvati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indra" title="Indra">Indra</a></li></ul></li> <li>Personal names using a deity's name as the base <ul><li>Vaishnavi, meaning "a worshipper of Vishnu"</li> <li>Shivansh, meaning "a part of Shiva"</li></ul></li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Brahma" title="Brahma">Brahma</a>, the Hindu creator god, is one of the only deities of the pantheon whose name is rarely if ever used as a personal name or a base for theophoric personal names. </p><p>Some seemingly theophoric names may in fact be more related to the original etymology of the deity's name itself. For example, both <a href="/wiki/Lakshmi" title="Lakshmi">Lakshmi</a> (fortune, success, prosperity) and <a href="/wiki/Lakshmana" title="Lakshmana">Lakshman</a> (prosperous, principal, marked) are names of a deity and an avatar respectively, which are related to <i>lakṣ</i> meaning "to mark or see".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Islam">Islam</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theophoric_name&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Islam"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Theophoric_name" title="Special:EditPage/Theophoric name">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">August 2021</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Arabic_theophoric_names" title="List of Arabic theophoric names">List of Arabic theophoric names</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Allah" title="Allah">Allah</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abdullah_(name)" title="Abdullah (name)">Abdullah</a>: "servant of God"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Judaism">Judaism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theophoric_name&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Judaism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Theophory_in_the_Bible" title="Theophory in the Bible">Theophory in the Bible</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1092331828">@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .contains-special-characters{width:22em}}</style><div class="side-box metadata side-box-right contains-special-characters noprint selfref"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Shalom" title="Shalom"><img alt="שָׁלוֹם" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Shalom2.svg/40px-Shalom2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Shalom2.svg/60px-Shalom2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Shalom2.svg/80px-Shalom2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="741" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><b>This article contains <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet" title="Hebrew alphabet">Hebrew text</a>.</b> Without proper <a href="/wiki/Help:Hebrew" title="Help:Hebrew">rendering support</a>, you may see <a href="/wiki/Specials_(Unicode_block)#Replacement_character" title="Specials (Unicode block)">question marks, boxes, or other symbols</a> instead of Hebrew letters.</div></div> </div> <p>Much <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a> theophory occurs in the <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a>, particularly in the <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a>. The most prominent theophoric names are: </p> <ul><li>names containing <a href="/wiki/El_(god)" class="mw-redirect" title="El (god)">El</a>, a word meaning <i>might</i>, <i>power</i> and (a) <i>god</i> in general, and hence in Judaism, <i>God</i> and among the Canaanites the name of the god who was the father of Baal.</li> <li>names containing <a href="/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism#Yah" title="Names of God in Judaism">Yah</a>, a shortened form of <a href="/wiki/Yahweh" title="Yahweh">Yahweh</a>.</li> <li>names referring to Levantine deities (especially the storm god, <a href="/wiki/Hadad" title="Hadad">Hadad</a>) by the <a href="/wiki/Epithet" title="Epithet">epithet</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Baal" title="Baal">Baal</a></i>, meaning <i>lord</i>.</li></ul> <p>In later times, as the conflict between <a href="/wiki/Yahweh#Origins_and_adoption_as_"God_of_Israel"" title="Yahweh">Yahwism</a> and the more popular pagan practices became increasingly intense, these names were censored and <i>Baal</i> was replaced with <i>Bosheth</i>, meaning <i>shameful one</i>. But the name Yahweh does not appear in theophoric names until the time of Joshua, and for the most part is very rare until the time of King Saul, when it began to be very popular.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="El">El</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theophoric_name&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: El"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/El_(deity)" title="El (deity)">El (deity)</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abdiel" title="Abdiel">Abdiel</a>: "Servant of God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariel_(given_name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ariel (given name)">Ariel</a>: "lion of God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_(given_name)" title="Daniel (given name)">Daniel</a>: "God is my judge" or "justice from God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elijah" title="Elijah">Elijah</a>: "my God is YHWH"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elihu_(Job)" class="mw-redirect" title="Elihu (Job)">Elihu</a>: "He is my God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elisha_(given_name)" title="Elisha (given name)">Elisha</a>: "my God is salvation"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elisheba" title="Elisheba">Elisheba</a> (<a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_(given_name)" title="Elizabeth (given name)">Elizabeth</a>): "my God is an oath" or "my God is abundance"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immanuel" title="Immanuel">Immanuel</a>: "God is with us"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yehezkel" title="Yehezkel">Yehezkel</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ezekiel_(name)" title="Ezekiel (name)">Ezekiel</a>): "God will strengthen"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabriel" title="Gabriel">Gabriel</a>: "man of God" or "power of God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ishmael" title="Ishmael">Ishmael</a>: "God listens"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel_(name)" title="Israel (name)">Israel</a>: "who struggles with God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lemuel" title="Lemuel">Lemuel</a>: "Dedicated/Devoted to God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_(given_name)" title="Michael (given name)">Michael</a>: "Who is like God?"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel" title="Nathaniel">Nathaniel</a>: "God-given" or "gift of God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raphael_(archangel)" title="Raphael (archangel)">Raphael</a>: "God heals/God is great"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel" title="Samuel">Samuel</a>: "God heard"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uriel" title="Uriel">Uriel</a>: "God is my light"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uzziel" title="Uzziel">Uzziel</a>: "God is my strength"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Yahweh">Yahweh</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theophoric_name&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Yahweh"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Yahweh" title="Yahweh">Yahweh</a> and <a href="/wiki/YHWH" class="mw-redirect" title="YHWH">YHWH</a></div> <p>The name of the Israelite deity YHWH (usually shortened to Yah or Yahu, and Yeho or Yo) appears as a prefix or suffix in many theophoric names of the <a href="/wiki/First_Temple_Period" class="mw-redirect" title="First Temple Period">First Temple Period</a>. For example, <i>Yirme-yahu</i> (<a href="/wiki/Jeremiah" title="Jeremiah">Jeremiah</a>), <i>Yesha-yahu</i> (<a href="/wiki/Isaiah" title="Isaiah">Isaiah</a>), <i>Netan-yah</i>, <i>Yedid-yah</i>, <i>Adoni-yah</i>, <i>Nekhem-yah</i>, <i>Yeho-natan</i> (<a href="/wiki/Jonathan_(name)" title="Jonathan (name)">Jonathan</a>), <i>Yeho-chanan</i> (<a href="/wiki/John_(given_name)" title="John (given name)">John</a>), <i>Yeho-shua</i> (<a href="/wiki/Joshua" title="Joshua">Joshua</a>), <i>Yeho-tzedek</i>, <i>Zekharya</i> (<a href="/wiki/Zechariah_(given_name)" title="Zechariah (given name)">Zechariah</a>). </p><p>"Yahū" or "Yah" is the abbreviation of YHWH when used as a suffix in Hebrew names; as a prefix it appears as "Y<sup>e</sup>hō-", or "Yo". It was formerly thought to be abbreviated from the <a href="/wiki/Masoretes" title="Masoretes">Masoretic</a> pronunciation "<a href="/wiki/Yehovah" class="mw-redirect" title="Yehovah">Yehovah</a>". There is an opinion<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that, as Yahweh is likely an <a href="/wiki/Imperfective" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperfective">imperfective</a> verb form, "Yahu" is its corresponding <a href="/wiki/Preterite" title="Preterite">preterite</a> or <a href="/wiki/Jussive" class="mw-redirect" title="Jussive">jussive</a> short form: compare <i>yiŝt<sup>a</sup>hawe<sup>h</sup></i> (imperfective), <i>yiŝtáhû</i> (preterit or jussive short form) = "do obeisance". </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abijah" title="Abijah">Abijah</a>: "my father is YHWH"</li> <li>Adonijah: "YHWH is the Lord"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hezekiah" title="Hezekiah">Hezekiah</a>: "YHWH strengthens"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaiah" title="Isaiah">Isaiah</a>: "YHWH is salvation"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jedediah" title="Jedediah">Jedediah</a>: "friend of YHWH"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jehu" title="Jehu">Jehu</a>: "YHWH is He"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeremiah_(given_name)" title="Jeremiah (given name)">Jeremiah</a> (<a href="/wiki/Jeremy_(given_name)" title="Jeremy (given name)">Jeremy</a>): "YHWH will raise"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joel_(given_name)" title="Joel (given name)">Joel</a>: "YHWH is God"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_(name)" title="Jonathan (name)">Jonathan</a>: "YHWH has given"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph" title="Joseph">Joseph</a>: "YHWH shall increase"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josiah_(given_name)" title="Josiah (given name)">Josiah</a>: "YHWH saves"</li> <li>Matityahu (<a href="/wiki/Matthew_(given_name)" title="Matthew (given name)">Matthew</a>): "gift of YHWH"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Micah" title="Micah">Micah</a>/<a href="/wiki/Micaiah" title="Micaiah">Micaiah</a>: "who is like YHWH?"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nehemiah" title="Nehemiah">Nehemiah</a>: "YHWH comforts"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obadiah" title="Obadiah">Obadiah</a>: "servant of YHWH"</li> <li>Toviyahu (<a href="/wiki/Tobias" title="Tobias">Tobias</a>): "the goodness of YHWH"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uriah_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Uriah (disambiguation)">Uriah</a>: "YHWH is my light"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uzziah" title="Uzziah">Uzziah</a>: "YHWH is my strength"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yeho%27ezer_ben_hosh%27ayahu_seal" class="mw-redirect" title="Yeho'ezer ben hosh'ayahu seal">Yeho'ezer</a> (Yoʼezer): "YHWH is my help"</li> <li>Yehoshua (<a href="/wiki/Joshua" title="Joshua">Joshua</a>)/<a href="/wiki/Yeshua" title="Yeshua">Yeshua</a> (<a href="/wiki/Jesus_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesus Christ">Jesus</a>): "YHWH will save"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yohanan" class="mw-redirect" title="Yohanan">Yohanan</a> (<a href="/wiki/John_(given_name)" title="John (given name)">John</a>): "graced by YHWH" or "YHWH is gracious"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zechariah_(given_name)" title="Zechariah (given name)">Zechariah</a> (<a href="/wiki/Zachary" title="Zachary">Zachary</a>): "YHWH has remembered"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zephaniah" title="Zephaniah">Zephaniah</a>: "hidden by YHWH"</li></ul> <p>In the table below, 13 theophoric names with "Yeho" have corresponding forms where the letters <i>eh</i> have been omitted. There is a theory by <a href="/wiki/Christian_Ginsburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Ginsburg">Christian Ginsburg</a> that this is because Hebrew scribes omitted the "h", changing Jeho (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1241449095">.mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-family:"Ezra SIL SR","Ezra SIL","SBL Hebrew","Taamey Frank CLM","SBL BibLit","Taamey Ashkenaz","Frank Ruehl CLM","Keter Aram Tsova","Taamey David CLM","Keter YG","Shofar","David CLM","Hadasim CLM","Simple CLM","Nachlieli",Cardo,Alef,"Noto Serif Hebrew","Noto Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}</style><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְהוֹ</span>‎) into Jo (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יוֹ</span>‎), to make the start of "Y<sup>e</sup>ho-" names not sound like an attempt to pronounce the Divine Name.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Strong's # </th> <th colspan="4">the name </th> <th rowspan="2">other element </th> <th colspan="2">English conventional form </th></tr> <tr> <th>long form</th> <th>short form </th> <th colspan="2">long form </th> <th colspan="2">short form </th> <th>long form</th> <th>short form </th></tr> <tr> <td>3059</td> <td>3099</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְהוֹאָחָז</span>‎</td> <td>Yᵉho'achaz</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יוֹאָחָז</span>‎</td> <td>Yo'achaz</td> <td>achaz [# 270]</td> <td>Jehoahaz</td> <td>Joahaz </td></tr> <tr> <td>3060</td> <td>3101</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְהוֹאָש</span>‎</td> <td>Yᵉho'ash</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יוֹאָש</span>‎</td> <td>Yo'ash</td> <td>'esh [# 784]</td> <td>Jehoash</td> <td>Joash </td></tr> <tr> <td>3075</td> <td>3107</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְהוֹזָבָד</span>‎</td> <td>Yᵉhozabad</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יוֹזָבָד</span>‎</td> <td>Yozabad</td> <td>zabad [# 2064]</td> <td>Jehozabad</td> <td>Jozabad </td></tr> <tr> <td>3076</td> <td>3110</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְהוֹחָנָן</span>‎</td> <td>Yᵉhowchanan</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יוֹחָנָן</span>‎</td> <td>Yochanan</td> <td>chanan [# 2603]</td> <td>Yehochanan</td> <td>Jochanan </td></tr> <tr> <td>3077</td> <td>3111</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְהוֹיָדָע</span>‎</td> <td>Yᵉhoyada</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יוֹיָדָע</span>‎</td> <td>Yoyada</td> <td>yada [# 3045]</td> <td>Jehoiada</td> <td>Joiada </td></tr> <tr> <td>3078</td> <td>3112</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְהוֹיָכִין</span>‎</td> <td>Yᵉhoyakin</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יוֹיָכִין</span>‎</td> <td>Yoyakin</td> <td>kun [# 3559]</td> <td>Yehoyakin</td> <td>Joiakin </td></tr> <tr> <td>3079</td> <td>3113</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְהוֹיָקִים</span>‎</td> <td>Yᵉhoyaqim</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יוֹיָקִים</span>‎</td> <td>Yoyaqim</td> <td>qum [# 3965]</td> <td>Yehoyakim</td> <td>Joakim </td></tr> <tr> <td>3080</td> <td>3114</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְהוֹיָרִיב</span>‎</td> <td>Yᵉhoyarib</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יוֹיָרִיב</span>‎</td> <td>Yoyarib</td> <td>rib [# 7378]</td> <td>Jehoiarib</td> <td>Joiarib </td></tr> <tr> <td>3082</td> <td>3122</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְהוֹנָדָב</span>‎</td> <td>Yᵉhonadab</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יוֹנָדָב</span>‎</td> <td>Yonadab</td> <td>nadab [# 5068]</td> <td>Jehonadab</td> <td>Jonadab </td></tr> <tr> <td>3083</td> <td>3129</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְהוֹנָתָן</span>‎</td> <td>Yᵉhonathan</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יוֹנָתָן</span>‎</td> <td>Yonathan</td> <td>nathan [# 5414]</td> <td>Yehonathan</td> <td>Jonathan </td></tr> <tr> <td>3085</td> <td>—</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְהוֹעַדָּה</span>‎</td> <td>Yᵉho'addah</td> <td>—</td> <td>—</td> <td>'adah [# 5710]</td> <td>Jehoaddah</td> <td>— </td></tr> <tr> <td>3087</td> <td>3136</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְהוֹצָדָק</span>‎</td> <td>Yᵉhotsadaq</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יוֹצָדָק</span>‎</td> <td>Yotsadaq</td> <td>tsadaq [# 6663]</td> <td>Jehozadak</td> <td>Jozadak </td></tr> <tr> <td>3088</td> <td>3141</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְהוֹרָם</span>‎</td> <td>Yᵉhoram</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יוֹרָם</span>‎</td> <td>Yoram</td> <td>rum [# 7311]</td> <td>Jehoram</td> <td>Joram </td></tr> <tr> <td>3092</td> <td>3146</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְהוֹשָפָט</span>‎</td> <td>Yᵉhoshaphat</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יוֹשָפָט</span>‎</td> <td>Yoshaphat</td> <td>shaphat [# 8199]</td> <td>Jehoshaphat</td> <td>Joshaphat </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="9"> </td></tr> <tr> <td>3470a</td> <td>3470</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְשַׁעְיָהוּ</span>‎</td> <td>Yᵉsha'yahu</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יְשַׁעְיָה</span>‎</td> <td>Yᵉsha'yah</td> <td>yasha [# 3467]</td> <td>Yeshayahu</td> <td>Isaiah </td></tr> <tr> <td>5418a</td> <td>5418</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">נְתַנְיָהוּ</span>‎</td> <td>Nᵉthanyahu</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">נְתַנְיָה</span>‎</td> <td>Nᵉthanyah</td> <td>nathan [# 5414]</td> <td>Netanyahu</td> <td>Netaniah </td></tr> <tr> <td>138a</td> <td>138</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">אֲדֹנִיָּהוּ</span>‎</td> <td>'Adoniyahu</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">אֲדֹנִיָּה</span>‎</td> <td>'Adoniyah</td> <td>'adown [# 113]</td> <td>Adoniyahu</td> <td>Adonijah </td></tr> <tr> <td>452a</td> <td>452</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">אֵלִיָּהוּ</span>‎</td> <td>'Eliyahu</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">אֵלִיָּה</span>‎</td> <td>'Eliyah</td> <td>'el [# 410]</td> <td>Eliyahu</td> <td>Elijah </td></tr> <tr> <td>3414a</td> <td>3414</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יִרְמְיָהוּ</span>‎</td> <td>Yirmᵉyahu</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יִרְמְיָה</span>‎</td> <td>Yirmᵉyah</td> <td>rum [# 7311]</td> <td>Yirmeyahu</td> <td>Jeremiah </td></tr> <tr> <td>—</td> <td>5166</td> <td>—</td> <td>—</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">נְחֶמְיָה</span>‎</td> <td>Nᵉchemyah</td> <td>nacham [# 5162]</td> <td>—</td> <td>Nechemiah </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Referring_to_other_gods">Referring to other gods</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theophoric_name&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Referring to other gods"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jerubbaal" class="mw-redirect" title="Jerubbaal">Jerubbaal</a>, the alternate name of <a href="/wiki/Gideon" title="Gideon">Gideon</a>, variously translated as "<a href="/wiki/Baal" title="Baal">Baal</a> will contend"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jezebel" title="Jezebel">Jezebel</a>: "glory to Baal"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ishbaal" class="mw-redirect" title="Ishbaal">Ishbaal</a>: "man of Baal"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balthazar_(magus)" title="Balthazar (magus)">Balthazar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Belshazzar" title="Belshazzar">Belshazzar</a> (<a href="/wiki/Akkadian_language" title="Akkadian language">Babylonian</a>): "Baal, protect the king"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abijam" class="mw-redirect" title="Abijam">Abijam</a>: "my father is <a href="/wiki/Yam_(god)" title="Yam (god)">Yam</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shalmaneser_V" title="Shalmaneser V">Shalmaneser</a> (<a href="/wiki/Akkadian_language" title="Akkadian language">Assyrian</a>): "<a href="/wiki/Shulmanu" title="Shulmanu">Shulmanu</a> is foremost"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sennacherib" title="Sennacherib">Sennacherib</a> (Assyrian): "<a href="/wiki/S%C3%AEn" class="mw-redirect" title="Sîn">Sîn</a> has replaced the brothers"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pygmalion_(mythology)" title="Pygmalion (mythology)">Pygmalion</a> (Phoenician via Greek): "<a href="/wiki/Pummay" title="Pummay">Pummay</a> has given"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar" class="mw-redirect" title="Nebuchadnezzar">Nebuchadnezzar</a> (in Babylonian: <i><a href="/wiki/Nabu" title="Nabu">Nabu</a>-kudurri-usur</i>): "Nabu, watch over my heir"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mordecai" title="Mordecai">Mordecai</a>: "from <a href="/wiki/Marduk" title="Marduk">Marduk</a>"</li> <li>Ben-Hadad: in Hebrew means "son of <a href="/wiki/Hadad" title="Hadad">Hadad</a>", but his original <a href="/wiki/Aramaic" title="Aramaic">Aramaic</a> name is <a href="/wiki/Hadadezer" title="Hadadezer">Hadadezer</a>: "Hadad is help"</li></ul> <p>Theophoric names containing "<a href="/wiki/Baal" title="Baal">Baal</a>" were sometimes "censored" as <i>-bosheth</i> = "shameful one", whence <a href="/wiki/Ishbosheth" class="mw-redirect" title="Ishbosheth">Ishbosheth</a> etc. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theophoric_name&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em 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.cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theophoric">"theophoric"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Merriam-Webster" title="Merriam-Webster">Merriam-Webster online dictionary</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=theophoric&rft.pub=Merriam-Webster+online+dictionary&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.merriam-webster.com%2Fdictionary%2Ftheophoric&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATheophoric+name" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=qeo/foros"><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">θεόφορος</span></span></a>. <a href="/wiki/Henry_Liddell" title="Henry Liddell">Liddell, Henry George</a>; <a href="/wiki/Robert_Scott_(philologist)" title="Robert Scott (philologist)">Scott, Robert</a>; <i><a href="/wiki/A_Greek%E2%80%93English_Lexicon" title="A Greek–English Lexicon">A Greek–English Lexicon</a></i> at the <a href="/wiki/Perseus_Project" class="mw-redirect" title="Perseus Project">Perseus Project</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shendge, Malati J. <i>The Language of the Harappans: From <a href="/wiki/Akkadian_language" title="Akkadian language">Akkadian</a> to <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanskrit language">Sanskrit</a></i>, 1997. p 24. "It may also be interpreted as theophorous names, i.e. the name of the god forming part of the name of an individual. The usage is theophorous because besides the <a href="/wiki/Eponymous" class="mw-redirect" title="Eponymous">eponymous</a> Asura, each individual of high or low status has a <a href="/wiki/Personal_name" title="Personal name">personal name</a>."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Zadok, R. <i>The Pre-<a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_period" title="Hellenistic period">Hellenistic</a> <a href="/wiki/Israelite" class="mw-redirect" title="Israelite">Israelite</a> <a href="/wiki/Anthroponymy" title="Anthroponymy">Anthroponymy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Prosopography" title="Prosopography">Prosopography</a></i>, 1988. p 16. "The Period of the Judges (J) The theophorous names constitute a sizable minority (almost 40%). Many of the hypocoristica possibly originate from compound theophorous names (e.g., Abdon, Gerd, J21 1 1 1 1, 2141 12)."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Benz, Frank L. <i>Personal Names in the <a href="/wiki/Phoenicia" title="Phoenicia">Phoenician</a> and <a href="/wiki/Punic_language" title="Punic language">Punic</a> Inscriptions</i>. p 233. "Any one of the three major types of elements, <a href="/wiki/Divine_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Divine name">divine name</a> or theophorous, nominal, or verbal can make up a Phoenician-Punic <a href="/wiki/Hypocoristic_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Hypocoristic name">hypocoristic name</a>. The divine name <a href="/wiki/Hypocoristic" class="mw-redirect" title="Hypocoristic">hypocoristic</a> is the least attested. The simplest formation is that of a single ..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Drijvers, H. J. W. <i>Cults and Behafs at Edessa</i>, 1980. p 21. "The proper names, which are mainly theophorous ones, may increase our knowledge of the religious feeling of the people of <a href="/wiki/Edessa" title="Edessa">Edessa</a> and of the <a href="/wiki/Cult" title="Cult">cults</a> practiced by them, insofar as their theophorous elements reflect existing beliefs."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMadhuri_Agrawal" class="citation book cs1">Madhuri Agrawal. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.org/details/dictionarysanskritenglishdictionarywilson_83_U"><i>Dictionary, Sanskrit English Dictionary Wilson</i></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dictionary%2C+Sanskrit+English+Dictionary+Wilson&rft.au=Madhuri+Agrawal&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fdictionarysanskritenglishdictionarywilson_83_U&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATheophoric+name" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://markhaughwout.com/Bible/Prefixes_suffixes_divine_names_Genesis.htm">Mark Haughwout, "Personal Names Before Exodus 6:2-3"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Anson F. Rainey, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://members.fortunecity.com/yahuwthah/Resource-577/AnsonLetter.htm">How Yahweh Was Pronounced</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111202034811/http://members.fortunecity.com/yahuwthah/Resource-577/AnsonLetter.htm">Archived</a> December 2, 2011, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, QUERIES & COMMENTS.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Ginsburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Ginsburg">Christian Ginsburg</a>, Introduction To the Massoretico-Critical Edition Of The Hebrew Bible, p 369</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scott Jones, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lamblion.net/Articles/ScottJones/jehovah1.htm">Jehovah</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051215095417/http://www.lamblion.net/Articles/ScottJones/jehovah1.htm">Archived</a> December 15, 2005, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theophoric_name&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Gonzalo Rubio, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pennstate.academia.edu/GRubio/Papers/911426/Gods_and_Scholars_Mapping_the_Pantheon_in_Early_Mesopotamia_in_Reconsidering_the_Concept_of_Revolutionary_Monotheism_2011_"><i>Gods and Scholars: Mapping the Pantheon in Early Mesopotamia</i></a> in Beate Pongratz-Leisten (ed.), <i>Reconsidering the Concept of Revolutionary Monotheism</i>, Eisenbrauns 2011</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/names/developments.html">Lexicon of Greek Personal Names</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.edofolks.com/html/pub119.htm">Ogden Goelet, "Moses' Egyptian Name"</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slate.com/id/2179082/">When Can Muslims Use the Name Mohammed?: Plus, why don't English speakers name their children Jesus?</a> by Michelle Tsai</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline 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