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Keziah or Kezziah is a Hebrew name used in the Old Testament. A number of etymologies have been suggested, among them the Hebrew for Cassia, from the name for the spice tree.
In the Old Testament, after his first daughter Jemima, the second of the three daughters born to Job after his sufferings is named Keziah (see Job 42:14). The name has been taken to symbolize female equality, since all of Job's three daughters received an inheritance from their father, an unusual circumstance in a time period when women and men were not treated equally [1].
In the United Kingdom, the name Kezia is now unusual, but it was more common in Victorian times. In 1890, the births of 137 children named Kezia were registered in England; in 1990, only 40 were [2]. More recently the name has become unisex despite its origin such as the musician Keziah Jones. Keziah has also found its way into modern literature in the book Keziah Dane by Sue Grafton[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Achtermeier, P. J. (1996). The HarperCollins Bible Dictionary. San Francisco: Harper
- ^ www.ancestry.co.uk, interrogated 3rd January 2009
- ^ Kleber, John E. (2001). The Encyclopedia of Louisville. University Press of Kentucky. p. 521. ISBN 9780813121000.
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