Download or read book A Dictionary of First Names written by Patrick Hanks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. The fascinating and informative Dictionary of First Names covers over 6,000 names in common use in English, including the very newest names as well as traditional names. From Alice to Zanna and Adam to Zola this book will answer all your questions: it will tell you the age, origin, and meaning of the name, as well as how it has fared in terms of popularity, and who the famous fictional or historical bearers for the name have been. It covers alternative spellings, short forms and pet forms, and masculine and feminine forms, as well as help with pronunciation. The book includes extensive appendices covering names from languages including Scottish, Irish, French, German, Italian, Arabic, and Chinese names. Tables of the most popular names by year and by region are also included. From the traditional to the rare and unconventional, this book will tell you everything you need to know about names.

Download or read book Dictionary of Bible Proper Names written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names written by J.B. Jackson and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2016-07-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some years since, the present writer, in pursuing his studies in the Bible, reached a portion which consisted largely of Proper Names, and at once he was confronted with the fact, that a considerable and, to him, important portion of the Bible was untranslated. Fully persuaded that “whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,” and that “all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine” (Rom. 15:4, 2 Tim. 3:16); and hence that there could be no idle word in God’s Book; he set about preparing an accurate, alphabetical list of all the Proper Names of the Old and New Testaments with a view to securing the best possible renderings of the same. Fortunately, there was ready access to the works of Cruden, Long, Oliver, Young, Wilkinson, Charnock, McClintock & Strong, Smith’s Bible Dictionary, Abbott’s Dictionary, Imperial Bible Dictionary, Encyclopaedia Biblica, and, before the list was complete, Strong’s Concordance, Tregelles, F. W. Grant, and others. At the end of about three years, the writer had obtained a meaning for nearly every proper name in the Bible, and, on the recommendation of friends, began preparations for publishing the results of his labours for the benefit of others similarly interested. His plan was to arrange the names alphabetically, as spelled in our common English Bibles, attaching the meanings he had found in the order in which he considered them to have weight, i.e., in the order in which he considered their sources to be authoritative. At the end of this part of his work, ere he went to press with his new Onomasticon, it occurred to him to experiment a little with some of the meanings he had secured in order to see how they would work in the elucidation of some of those passages which had first suggested the need of his researches. The result was as perplexing as it was curious; in some cases no less than twelve different, not to say opposite, meanings were given to the same name by the same writer. But which, if any one of them, was the English equivalent of the Hebrew or Greek name under consideration? That was the important question, to determine which. A few of these names were subjected to rigid, etymological analysis during which two discoveries were made, viz.: 1. That not one of these onomasticographers could be depended upon throughout his whole list of names. 2. That “every Scripture was God-inspired... that the man of God may be perfect, fully fitted to every good work.” (2 Tim. 3:16-17 – literal rendering) A new start was made; all meanings were discarded and each name was traced to its own roots in the original tongue and the meaning derived according to the etymological rules and usage of the language in which it was written. In the present work all current authorities have been used or consulted, such as Robinson’s Gesenius, Fuerst’s Hebrew Lexicon, Davidson’s Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, Davies’ Hebrew Lexicon and, now that it is completed, the learned and laborious Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon by Brown, Driver & Briggs as well as Tregelles and some others for portions. For the New Testament names, the Greek Lexicons of Liddell & Scott and Parkhurst have been mainly relied upon. The one controlling idea in the preparation of this work has been to provide the English-speaking reader with an exact, literal equivalent of the original Hebrew, Chaldee (Aramaic), or Greek name, and this the reader may expect to find. In each and every case the author has compared his rendering with the rendering given by the onomasticographers above mentioned and, where he differs from them, he is quite prepared to give a satisfactory reason for the difference to anyone competent to form a judgment. Where such different rendering is possible or plausible he has not failed to give it a place with his own.

Download or read book The Penguin Dictionary of Proper Names written by Geoffrey Payton and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1991 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary of names, places and titles, offering a selective guide to the names, titles and nicknames of Western culture, both ancient and modern.

Download or read book Dictionary of Proper Names and Places in the Bible written by O. Odelain and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dictionary of Proper Names and Places in the Bible written by O. Odelain and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Proper Names of the Old Testament Scriptures Expounded and Illustrated written by Alfred Jones and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante written by Paget Jackson Toynbee and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names written by John K. Bollard and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniquely compiled with the aid of computer speech-synthesis technology, this dictionary contains 23,000 entries, including frequently occurring or difficult-to-pronounce names of places worldwide that are currently in the news. Also covered are other important places, celebrities, political and historical figures, company and product names, biblical names, and literary references. Pronunciations appear both in a simplified respelling and in the phonetic symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Entries include concise definitions that identify each proper name. For users from the casual to the scholarly. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Dictionary of P li Proper Names written by Gunapala P. Malalasekera and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A smaller Latin English dictionary written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Concise Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante written by Paget Jackson Toynbee and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Complete Dictionary of Bible Names written by Dr Judson Cornwall and published by Bridge Logos Inc. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing every biblical name and its Hebrew or Greek nuances, your own relationship with God will be enriched as you gain an in-depth understanding of their meanings.

Download or read book Dictionary of Pali Proper Names 1 2 written by George Peiris Malalasekera and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dictionary of Pali Proper Names written by Gunapala P. Malalasekera and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante written by Paget Jackson Toynbee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dictionary of P li Proper Names written by Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: