- A
theophoric name (from Gr****: θεόφορος, theophoros,
literally "bearing or
carrying a god")
embeds the word
equivalent of 'god' or God's name in a person's...
- This is a list of
Arabic theophoric names.
Following are
names consisting of the
appellation ʿabd al-, 'servant of'
followed by one of the
names ****ociated...
- kāʼēl, 'Who [is] like-El', in Aramaic: ܡܝܟܐܝܠ (Mīkhāʼēl [miχaˈʔel]). The
theophoric name is
often read as a
rhetorical question – "Who [is] like [the Hebrew...
-
Theophory is the
practice of
embedding the name of a god or a
deity in, usually, a
proper name. Much
Hebrew theophory occurs in the Bible, particularly...
-
being one of the
names of God in Islam,
which would form a
Muslim Arabic theophoric name. Such as
Abdullah simply meaning "Servant of God"
while "Abdul Aziz"...
-
Early Dynastic god
lists from Fara and Abu Salabikh. Additionally, the
theophoric name Ur-Sherida is
known from
Lagash and Ur.
Gebhard J. Selz [de] notes...
-
others have also
alternatively interpreted it as "Yahweh is lordly". The
theophoric name
appears to be
constructed from a
combination of the Tetragrammaton...
-
attested containing the name
Milcom as an element. However, in
Ammonite theophoric names, El, the
chief god of the
Canaanite pantheon,
appears more frequently...
- of the most po****r deities.
While well
attested in
ritual texts and
theophoric names, he does not play a
large role in
Ugaritic mythology. An omen text...
- majesty, such as "The Haughty". The
Arabic names of God are used to form
theophoric given names commonly used in
Muslim cultures throughout the world, mostly...
