Theophore

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As theophoric name (of Greek  θεός theós " God " and φέρειν pherein "bear") are terms referred that contain a name of God. This mainly includes personal names and place names. We encounter such names in many cultures. Several names from the Bible in use today are theophore.

Theophoric names

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Personal names (selection)

Egyptians

• Thutmose " Thoth is born"
• Ramses " Ra is born"

Arabs

• Abdullah "servant of Allah "
• Abdul Rahman "Servant of the Merciful", or another combination of Abd "Servant (of Allah)" and one of the 99 names of Allah

Assyrians

• Šamši-Adad "My sun is Adad "
• Tukulti-Ninurta "My protection is Ninurta "

Germanic peoples

• Thorsten " Thor Stone"
• Odinkar " Odin Man"

Greeks

• Apollodorus "gift from Apollon "
• Athenodorus "Gift of Athena "

Biblical names

• Elijah (Elias) "My God is YHWH "
• Israel "God fights"

Christian personal names

Christian personal names can be divided into two groups. The first includes names that are formed in a non-Hebrew language and contain the word for God , in German e.g. B. Gottfried , Gottlieb or Gotthilf , or the names Timotheos , Theodor or Dorothea borrowed from the Greek . The second group includes Biblical names that contain the Hebrew word for God (El) or YHWH, e.g. B. Michael , Raphael , Johannes or Elias .

Place names (selection)

There are 86 theophore names of places and waters in Denmark alone.

• Aquae Granni "Water of Grannus "; ancient name of Aachen.
• Gudhjem "Götterhein"; similarly also Gudme ; Places in Denmark, and Gudhem in Sweden.
• Hermopolis " Hermes City" in Egypt
• Odense "Odins Ve"; City on Funen. "Ve" or "Vi" means a sanctuary ( Viborg ), linguistically related to German: consecration place
• Oslo “ Asen Grove”; Capital of Norway.
• Tarḫuntašša "(city) of Tarḫunt -"; temporarily capital of the Hittite Empire

Theophoric procession

A theophoric procession is a procession in which the deity, an image of a god or a divine symbol is carried along and shown, in Catholicism for example the most holy place in the Corpus Christi procession .