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    BaalHabooze
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    We recently named our baby ‘Dovid’ after a close relative of mine. Anyone know the meaning of his name?

    Other names I’d like to know their meaning:

    Avner, Frumit, Bashi, Binyomin, and Yonason to name a few.

    #874305
    teaare
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    For Binyomin, see Rashi where the name is first used.

    #874306

    Basha comes from Batya.

    #874307
    YW Moderator-42
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    Yonason comes from Yehonasan which probably means Hashem gave.

    #874308
    Sam2
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    Anyone want to try and translate Ester and Mordechai?

    #874309
    oomis
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    Avner, Frumit, Bashi, Binyomin, and Yonason to name a few.

    Avner – The father of the candle (or alternativel, the father of Ner), Frumit – the religious one, Binyomin (the son of the right (hand), and Yonason – G-d gave. Bashi probably IS a derivative of Batya.

    I don’t know for certain, but perhaps Dovid comes from “Dod” or loved one (as in Ani l’dodi.) It is spelled exactly the same in Hebrew.

    #874310
    yitayningwut
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    Well I know an Ester is a chemical compound derived by reacting an oxoacid with a hydroxyl compound such as an alcohol or phenol. Maybe she smelled nice. Mordechai I don’t know, is it some kind of slang? Like, “more da chai mon” – Judeo-Jamaican for “more life”.

    #874311
    Sam2
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    Yitay: What type of trolling was my question? Reverse type 3?

    #874312
    BSD
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    Mordechai is from muruh dachya which is targum’s translation for one of the besamim in the ketores.

    Baila- spelled bais yud lamed alef-is an acronym for baruch Hashem leolam amen.

    #874313
    sem graduate
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    Esther – ?? ????? ????? ?? ??? – hidden

    Mordechai – ??? ???? – a type of sweet smelling plant

    #874314
    Logician
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    Deeper meaning of Dovid:

    “Dal(ed)”, poor (humble), before, when an outcast, “v’dal”, and still the same humble (va’ani tola’as) after he was melech Yisrael.

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