[identity profile] pearshateraqui.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] babynames
Out of curiosity, can anyone think of any Biblical female names? The only one I can think of offhand is Esther. Thanks for any help!

Date: 2006-09-08 01:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolf-shadow.livejournal.com
Ruth
Hannah
Mary
Elizabeth
Miriam

Date: 2006-09-08 02:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolf-shadow.livejournal.com
Hepzibah
Keziah
Sara
Rachel
Delilah
Eve / Eva
? Agnes
Abigail
Leah
Rebecca
? Tabitha
Magdalene
Martha

Those are all the ones which I can place where they definitely come from, as opposed to being associated with the bible, eg Christian, or a feminisation eg Joanna, Michelle etc.

Date: 2006-09-08 02:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolf-shadow.livejournal.com
Useful link I just found: http://www.biblebell.org/namegirl.html

Date: 2006-09-08 02:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] namegirl.livejournal.com
heh, namegirl.html :D

Date: 2006-09-08 07:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ciara-belle.livejournal.com
Technically, Magdalene is not so much a name as an indication of where Mary was from. Mary of Magdala = Mary Magdalene.

Also, I don't remember an Agnes in the Bible. She's a later saint.

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