Kezia
Kezia (variants: Cassia, Ketziah, Keziah ) is a female given name from Hebrew (קְצִיעָה) and means: lovely fragrance or cinnamon blossom . What is meant is the flower or the scent of the cinnamon cassia , which was planted as a spice bush in Israel, but it is not a real cassia . The name appears in the Bible . Kezia was the second of Job's three daughters who were given to him after his health and family had been restored ( Job 42.14 EU ). She was especially known for her beauty and her wits.
The cassia is a legume that is pantropical, i.e. tropical and subtropical, around the entire globe.
The name was common in Victorian England and is rare there again today. Today it is no longer used in a gender-specific way, compare Keziah Jones , and is literary with Keziah Dane (1967) by Sue Grafton .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beate Varnhorn: The large lexicon of first names. Bertelsmann, 2008, ISBN 978-3-57707694-4 , p. 88
- ↑ Stuttgart Biblical Nachshlagewerk. Württemberg Bible Institute, Stuttgart 1955, p. 499
- ^ John E. Kleber: The Encyclopedia of Louisville. University Press of Kentucky, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8131-2100-0 , p. 521