theophory

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Micah is the name of several people in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), and means "Who is like God?" The name is sometimes found with theophoric extensions. Suffix theophory in Yah and in Yahweh results in Michaiah or Michaihu. Suffix theophory in El results in Michael."

From Ancient Greek θεόφορος (theóphoros, “bearing a god”) + -y.

theophoric

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