Given name
Hiskia
“God is my strength”
Hiskia is a masculine given name from Biblical Hebrew, meaning “God is my strength.” It is used in Swedish, Finnish, and Norwegian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Biblical Hebrew חזקיהו (Ḥizqiyáhu, “God is my strength”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Hiskia’s family of names
In German usage, Hiskia has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Езекия.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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