Given name
Sefanja
“the Lord has hidden”
Sefanja is a masculine given name. It is used in Dutch.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sefanja goes back to a word meaning “the Lord has hidden.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Sefanja’s family of names
In Dutch usage, Sefanja has a conventional equivalent in the English form Zephaniah. In Dutch usage, Sefanja has a conventional equivalent in the French form SOPHONIE. In Dutch usage, Sefanja has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form SOFONIAS.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Sefanja has relatives in 15 languages.
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- ZephaniahEnglish
- SofoniasPortuguese
- SophonieFrench
- СофонияRussian
- SofoniášCzech
- ZefaniasTagalog, Danish
- SofoníasSpanish
- Księga SofoniaszaPolish
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