1 / 6

NAME MEANINGS and

NAME MEANINGS and. Etymo ogy. (study of word origins). RALPH. Derived from the Norse elements rað meaning "counsel" and úlfr meaning "wolf". JACK. (Hebrew) "one who supplants" or replaces by force. Roger: Means "famous spear" from the Germanic elements hrod "fame" and ger "spear".

dieter
Download Presentation

NAME MEANINGS and

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. NAME MEANINGS and Etymo ogy (study of word origins)

  2. RALPH Derived from the Norse elements rað meaning "counsel" and úlfr meaning "wolf".

  3. JACK (Hebrew) "one who supplants" or replaces by force

  4. Roger: Means "famous spear" from the Germanic elements hrod "fame" and ger "spear".

  5. Simon: "Listener" From the Greek form of the Hebrew name שִׁמְעוֹן (Shim'on) which meant "he has heard".

  6. LORD OF THE FLIES – Beelzebub O.E. Belzebub, Philistine god worshipped at Ekron (2 Kings i.2), from L., used in Vulgate for N.T. Gk. beelzeboub, from Heb. ba'al-z'bub "lord of the flies," from ba'al "lord" + z'bhubh "fly." By later Christian writers often taken as another name for "Satan," though Milton made him one of the fallen angels. Baal "The name of many deities of the Semitic peoples" [Klein], late 14c., Biblical use is from Heb. Ba'al, lit. "owner, master, lord," from ba'al "he took possession of," also "he married;" related to Akkad. Belu (source of Heb. Bel), name of Marduk. Also related to the first element in Beelzebub. Used figuratively for any "false god."

More Related