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Hephzibah

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[hef-zuh-buh, -suh-, hep-suh-buh] / ˈhɛf zə bə, -sə-, ˈhɛp sə bə /

noun

  1. (in the Bible) the wife of Hezekiah and the mother of Manasseh.

  2. (in the Bible) a name applied to Jerusalem.

  3. Also Hepsiba a female given name.


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Cather was also struck by his younger sisters, writing to her nieces that the girls, Hephzibah and Yaltah, musicians too, were “almost as gifted and quite as handsome as he.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

In 2016, writer Hephzibah Anderson connected Dahl's work with child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim's study "The Uses of Enchantment."

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2020

In her future books, I hope MacBird lets us see even more of Holmes’s female Baker Street Irregular, the street-smart, half-Irish, half-Jewish cockney Hephzibah O’Malley.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019

The Hephzibah High School teacher’s description was displayed on the board with a photo of a Confederate flag, Augusta's WRDW-TV reported.

From Fox News ● Oct. 5, 2019

Hephzibah turned it round and round, looking at it as if she thought that the examination of the money would help her in giving her answer.

From Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History by A. L. O. E.

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