Given name
Mehitabel
“God makes happy”
Mehitabel joins a Hebrew religious meaning with a distinctive literary afterlife.
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “God makes happy.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
The biblical form Mehetabel appears in the genealogy in Genesis 36:39. The name later found use among seventeenth-century Puritans, and Don Marquis gave Mehitabel to the cat who accompanies Archy in his poems.
Mehitabel’s family of names
In English usage, Mehitabel has a related form in Mehetabel.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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