Hephzibah

American  

[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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Example Sentences

Bisola Hephzibah Johnson, another former disciple, told the BBC she persuaded Marten not to return to Scoan in 2013 to carry out secret filming for her documentary, saying it would be too dangerous.

From BBC

The Guardian's Hephzibah Anderson said Keyes' book would win her something "long overdue in snootier literary quarters: respect".

From BBC

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

It was the final stretch in what its participants have dubbed the Great Pigeon Relay: an ambitious, crowdsourced bid to transport an injured pigeon down the Eastern Seaboard, from Baltimore to the Ramsey Loft, a pigeon-specific rescue aviary in Hephzibah, Ga.

From Washington Post

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

From Salon