Deborah
See also: Déborah
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Hebrew דְבוֹרָה (dvorá), meaning bee.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Deborah (plural Deborahs)
- (biblical) A judge of Israel.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 4:4::
- And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
- (biblical) A nurse of Rebecca.
- A female given name from Hebrew, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s, first in the USA, then in the UK.
- 1851, James Brayshay, The Protector of Houghall, Or the Lily and the Rose, Groombridge and Sons, act I:
- Rapier. Heigho! Deborah! it's an ugly name, a damnable name - the name I mean! - it sounds like Gomorrah! Deb! Debby! - worse still - sounded sharp now I rather like it! - Deborah! Deborah! Deborah!
- 1995, Carl Hiaasen, Stormy Weather, Alfred A.Knopf,Inc., →ISBN, page 256:
- He hadn't known, for example, that her middle name was Deborah. It was a name he liked: plucky, Midwestern and reliable-sounding. He was willing to bet that if you went through every women's prison in America, you wouldn't find a half-dozen Deborahs.
- 1995, “Disco 2000”, in Different Class, performed by Pulp:
- Your name is Deborah, Deborah / It never suited ya
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female given name
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: De‧bo‧rah
Noun
[edit]Deborah
- a female given name
- (biblical) Deborah
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