Akiba (first name)

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Akiba is a male name . It comes from Aramaic עֲקִיבָאand means "heel". Jacob is derived from the same Semitic root .

Name bearer

  • Akiba ben Josef ( Hebrew עקיבא בן יוסף; around 50 / 55–135), usually called Rabbi Akiba, is one of the most important fathers of rabbinic Judaism and is counted among the second generation of Tannaim
  • Akiba Eger (Akiba ben Mose Eger, Akiba the Younger, Akiba ben Moses Gins from Eisenstadt; 1761–1837), rabbi in Märkisch-Friedland and Posen
  • Akiba Eisenberg (1908–1983), first chief rabbi of the Israelite religious community in Vienna after the Second World War.
  • Jacob Akiba Marinsky (1918–2005), American chemist and co-discoverer of the element promethium
  • Akiba Rubinstein (1880–1961), Polish chess player
  • Ernst Akiba Simon (1899–1988), Israeli religious philosopher, educator and historian of German origin
  • Akiba Israel Wertheimer (called Breslauer ; 1778-1835), German Oberlandesrabbi in Altona and Schleswig-Holstein

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Akiba at behindthename.com