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On Hebrew Names122

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Bartholomaeus: The son of the one hanging water, or as above.

Barsaban: A returning son or a son of rest: a name composed of Syriac and Hebrew.

Barnabas: Son of a prophet, or son of one coming, or as most think, son of consolation.

Blastum: Having profit/gain.

Berieu: Witchcraft, or in evil. Some read corruptly in Bari.

Bithynia: Beautiful daughter, whether useless.

Beroea: His son. He is a Syrian.

Berenice: Elegantly, either stirred or chosen, or innocent son: composed of Syrian and Hebrew.

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Cappadocia: By hand redeemed to the Lord. Violent.

Cirenae: heir.

Creta: Of vocation, or of the called. Between the Syrian and the Hebrew.

Caiphas: Investigator, or keen-scented, or vomiting with the mouth.

Cyprius: Sadness, or grief.

Cyrenenses: heirs.

Cilicia: Gathering, or mourning, or assumption, or vomiting of it.

Caesarea: possession of the prince.

Candacis: Changed.

Cornelius: Understanding circumcision.

Claudius: Hope of tranquility.

Cis: A man who vomits, or is hard.

Coloniam: Their revelation, or their voice.

Corinthum: Their conversation, when Greeks call it more significantly "politeia", means "the administration of the state."

Crispus: knowing, or recognizing.

Cenchreas: possessing followers.