Ebenezer

[eb-uh-nee-zer]

noun

1. a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “stone of help.”

Example Sentences

Fawaz Ali, 27, Ebenezer Tackie, 42 and Michael Quartey, 28, were found guilty of money laundering offences and sentenced to four years and 10 months, four years and six months, and five years and six months in prison respectively at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday.

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Who wouldn’t be curious to see Ebenezer Scrooge take a Tinder date to meet his girlfriends past?

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Outside court Daniel's mother, Grace Anjorin, was joined by his father, Dr Ebenezer Anjorin, who read the following statement.

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Dr Ebenezer Anjorin recalled the morning Daniel was killed and said he left for school at 07:00 BST and 15 minutes later he was told his son had been stabbed.

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The Republican senator recently called up the spirit of Ebenezer Scrooge.

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When To Use

What does Ebenezer mean?

Ebenezer is a proper name that is perhaps best known as the name of Ebenezer Scrooge, the greedy old guy from Charles Dickens’ short novel A Christmas Carol.In this sense, Ebenezer (or ebenezer) is sometimes used as a term for someone who is especially greedy, or someone who grumpily refuses to participate in Christmastime festivities, as in Only an Ebenezer like you would cancel the toy drive. However, it’s his last name, Scrooge, that’s much more commonly used as a term for such people (often in lowercase as scrooge).Ebenezer also has two other uses. It can refer to a kind of memorial or commemoration of God’s help, especially a stone memorial or a kind of altar. It is also used as a slang word referring to anger or one’s temper, especially in phrases like get your ebenezer up or raise your ebenezer, though it’s now very rarely used in this way.