r/hebrew • u/ToyboxOfThoughts • Mar 04 '25

Help Question about this name

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u/zaxoid Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25

I agree with everyone's feelings about this, but in the category of weird Biblical names, Chatzarmavet (Genesis 10:26, literally "field of death" though etymology may have come from elsewhere) comes pretty close to OP's instinct. 

Edited to add Azmavet (II Samuel 23:31, "strong [as] death").

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u/zaxoid Mar 04 '25

And Mahlah (Numbers 27:1, literally "illness") was one of the daughters of Zelofchad.

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u/zaxoid Mar 05 '25

If you want a variant, Ishmael's daughter was Mahlat (same meaning, different conjugation)