Menahem (name)

Menahem is a Jewish male given name , which also occurs as a family name .

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

• Menahem , King of Israel (reigned from 745 BC to 738 BC or from 752 BC to 742 BC)
• Menahem Asarja da Fano (1548–1620), Italian Kabbalist of the Lurian direction
• Menahem Golan (1929–2014), Israeli director, film producer and screenwriter
• Menahem Pressler (* 1923), pianist and founder of the Beaux Arts Trio
• Menahem Max Schiffer (1911–1997), American mathematician of German origin
• Menahem E. Yaari (* 1935), Israeli economist

family name

• Hanina Ben-Menahem , Israeli professor for Jewish law

See also

• Menachem
• Menuhin

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans Rechenmacher : Old Hebrew names, Münster 2012, p. 91.124.182.