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[ˈmi.ɾjãm] · Spanish
01 / Meaning & origin
Míriam is a feminine given name documented in Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan.
Del hebreo מִרְיָם (Miryam) con etimología debatida.
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Miriam— “bitter”
Miriam does not seem to have been repeated until after the captivity, when it took the Greek forms of Mariam and Mariamne, and became very frequent among Jewish women, probably in the expectation of the new deliverance from the bondage that galled them like that of Egypt of old. It was the name of the Asmonean princess in whom the brave Maccabean line was extinguished by Herod the Great; it belonged to three if not to four of the women of the Gospel; and we find it again…
Miriam does not seem to have been repeated until after the captivity, when it took the Greek forms of Mariam and Mariamne, and became very frequent among Jewish women, probably in the expectation of the new deliverance from the bondage that galled them like that of Egypt of old. It was the name of the Asmonean princess in whom the brave Maccabean line was extinguished by Herod the Great; it belonged to three if not to four of the women of the Gospel; and we find it again marking the miserable being who is cited as having fulfilled the most terrible of all the woes denounced by Moses upon the daughters of Jerusalem.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part I, Chapter III (Israelite Names), Section I (Moses and Aaron) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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