theophorous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "An objection to the Kenite hypothesis has been raised by T. J . Meek, on the basis that Jochebed, the name of Moses' mother, is a theophorous name containing as a prefix the element yō, implying that the family of Moses were Yahweh worshippers."
- "Names of this sort, theophorous or basilophorous, were regularly given to foreigners residing in Egypt from the New Kingdom onwards, if not earlier; even Joseph was no exception."
- "The majority of the theophorous elements are based on Yah rather than el. Daiches believed that this was intended to make a clear theological distinction from el, which was a widely used Semitic term for a divinity."