Menachem
Menachem is a Jewish male given name, which also occurs as a family name.
variants
etymology
The Hebrew personal name מְנַחֵם mənaḥem "Menahem" is the short form of a nominal sentence name whose subject (and at the same time theophoric element) has failed. Predicate is an active participle from the verb rootנחם nḥm in the Pi''el with the meaning "comfort" in this tribe. The name can therefore be translated as "(God) is comforter". The name could also be analyzed as a one-word name (meaning "comforter"), but this is less likely here, since the verbנחם nḥm is connected to a divine subject in other names (cf.נְחֶמְיָה nəḥæmjāh , German ' JHWH has comforted' ). The Septuagint gives the name as Μαναημ Manaēm , the Vulgate as Manahem .
Name bearer
First name
- Menachem Ariav (1929–2017), Israeli politician
- Menachem Avidom (1908–1995), Israeli composer
- Menachem Begin (1913–1992), Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Israel
- Menachem Birnbaum (1893–1944?), Austrian book artist, portrait draftsman and book illustrator
- Menachem Hacohen (* 1932), Israeli rabbi, politician and writer
- Menachem Kipnis (1878–1942) was a singer, critic and photographer, collector of Yiddish songs
- Menachem Mendel von Kotzk (the Kotzker Rebbe; 1787-1859), Hasidic rabbi
- Menachem Mendel Lefin (1749-1826), Hebrew writer
- Menachem Magidor (* 1946), Israeli mathematical logician
- Menachem Masus (* 1955), Israeli lawyer
- Menachem Pinkhof (1920–1969), German-Jewish resistance fighter during the Second World War
- Menachem Porush (1916-2010), ultra-Orthodox rabbi and Israeli politician
- Menachem ben Benjamin Recanati , Kabbalist in Italy at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries
- Menachem ben Solomon (called: ha-Me'iri - * 1249; † 1316 or 1306), Jewish scholar and Talmud expert in southern France
- Menachem ben Saruq (also Menahem b. Saruk etc .; * approx. 920 in Tortosa; died approx. 970), Spanish-Jewish philologist and poet
- Menachem Ben-Sasson (* 1951), Israeli historian and politician
- Menachem Savidor (1917–1988), Israeli politician, temporarily President of the Knesset
- Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789–1866; also: Zemach Zedek), Orthodox rabbi
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994), Rebbe of the Chabad movement
- Menachem Ussishkin (1863–1941), Zionist and President of the Jewish National Fund (JNF)
- Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk (around 1730–1788), Hasidic leader in Vitebsk and Tiberias
Intermediate name
- Arthur Menachem Hantke (1874–1955) - German-Israeli Zionist association manager
- Pinchas Menachem Joskowicz (1924–2010), Israeli-Polish rabbi, from 1988 to 1999 Chief Rabbi of Poland
- Elasar Menachem Schach (1898–2001), ultra-Orthodox rabbi in Israel
family name
- Abraham Bar Menachem (1912–2017), Israeli journalist
- Eli Ben-Menachem (* 1947), Israeli politician
Derived form:
- Steven Mnuchin (* 1962), American investor and politician
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Rechenmacher : Old Hebrew names, Münster 2012, p. 91.124.182.