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Da'at Mikrah write in their introduction to the Book of Jeremiah: "...Instead of him [=King Yehoachaz], appointed Nekho Eliakim ben Yoshiyahu, who agreed, it seems, to be subject to Egypt, and even c …

The commentaries Sefaria brings merely state that the names (both Bat-sheva/Bat-shua and Eliam/Amiel) are interchangeable, but what's the reason for the name change? …

In Targum Sheni on Esther 1:3, a man named Paltiya ben Yehoyadah (פלטיא/פלטיה בן יהוידע) is mentioned as someone who argued with Nevuchadnetzar when he came to destroy Yerushalayim: "When Nevuchadnet …

Some shameless self-promotion: I wrote a blog post on this last year, which you can find here. The name Bat Sheva literally means "daughter of seven", although the root "שבע" is also related to vows. …

speculated in the past1 that his name may mean something pagan: In his paper "The Phoenician-Punic Menology", Boundaries of the Ancient Near Eastern World, pp. 211-221, Robert Stieglitz restored the names … What's interesting is that almost all of the names of the months have idolatrous meanings. …

version brought in Shemot Rabbah 40:4, the word "ישי" (Jesse) in Tanchuma is a scribal error and should be "יש" (there is): "יֵשׁ שֶׁנִּקְרְאוּ לוֹ אַרְבָּעָה זֶה אֵלִיָּהוּ" "There is one who had four names … Chanoch Zundel in his commentary Etz Yosef.1 It's possible that the scribal error in some versions arose from the fact that at the end of the list Elijah seems to be mentioned once again as having four names …

I'll update with more names suggested in the comments or that I have come across. Yeshayahu had a son named מהר שלל חש בז (Maher Shalal Chash Baz) (Isaiah 8:1-3). …

Near as I can tell, there isn't an etymological connection between the two pairs of names (from a google search, Antigonos means "like [an] ancestor", while Matityah likely means "gift from Hashem"; Aristobulos … means "best intention" or "best counsel" while Yehudah comes from giving thanks to Hashem), so I don't have any idea at the moment as to why Jews would associate these names with each other. …

Any connection between the mishmar kehunah Yeshv'av, which was also nicknamed "Chutzpit-Shuchin" (also known as Shuchim or Shichin, the town where they settled in) (see here for example) and two of th …

Rabbi Chaim Navon in this class suggests that she wasn't named to symbolize that Shimshon ultimately followed in the footsteps of his father Manoach in terms of worldview and his view of his path as a …

Though I myself agree with @yechezkel that the two women are not the same, I would like to note that two sources that I found do state this: The Tosefta to the Targum of Judges1 17:2 writes: "דיהבו …

Am Yisrael has a number of names in Tanach. "Yaakov" (such as "Beit Yaakov") and "Yisrael" ("Bnei Yisrael") come from the names of Yaakov Avinu. "Yehudim" from the Kingdom of Yehudah. And so forth. …

Yes, there is such an opinion in the Talmud (Megillah 15a): "It is taught in a baraita: Rabbi Yehoshua ben Korḥa said: Malachi is in fact Ezra." This view has been accepted by many, although there a …

To clarify, I'm not asking who the King of Nineveh in Sefer Yonah was. I'm simply wondering why he's unnamed (see Yonah 3:6-7). He was probably some sort of Assyrian ruler, and several of those were n …

It turns out the most common name in the Tanach is Zecharayahu: A Kohen in the time of David (Divrei Hayamim 1:15:24) A Levite in the time of David (Divrei Hayamim 1:15:18) A gate-keeper in Ohel Mo …