{"id":12842,"date":"2010-03-28T00:27:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T07:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2010\/03\/28\/theophory.html"},"modified":"2010-03-28T00:27:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T07:27:50","slug":"theophory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2010\/03\/28\/theophory\/","title":{"rendered":"theophory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometime around the beginning of March, I came across the word <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theophory_in_the_Bible\">theophory<\/a>, which Wikipedia says is \"the practice of embedding the name of a god or a deity in, usually, a proper name.\"<\/p>\n<p>For example, Wikipedia says that the name \"Elijah\" incorporates both \"El\" and \"Jah,\" both of which refer to God; it says the name translates to (among other things) \"My God is Jah.\"<\/p>\n<p>All of which is interesting enough to me on its own&mdash;I had known that \"El\" in names sometimes referred to God, but had no idea there was a word for that&mdash;but is even more interesting to me because my very own name is an example of theophory.<\/p>\n<p>My parents had various reasons for naming me \"Jedediah\": partly after Jedediah Smith, for example, and partly because it was, they always said, King Solomon's name before he changed it to Solomon.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out in that context it's usually spelled \"Jedidiah,\" with an i in place of the second e. But regardless, it was in fact a name given to Solomon when he was a baby, and it means \"beloved of God\"; I never thought of this before, but I now assume the \"iah\" part at the end refers to Yahweh.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime around the beginning of March, I came across the word theophory, which Wikipedia says is &#8220;the practice of embedding the name of a god or a deity in, usually,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-names","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}