Barak (given name)
The given name Barak, also spelled Baraq, from the root B-R-Q, is a Hebrew name meaning "lightning". It is a Biblical name, given after the Israelite general Barak (ברק Bārāq).
B-R-Q[edit]
The Semitic root B-R-Q has the meaning "to shine"; "lightning".[1]:p.122 The Hebrew name ברק Bārāq is biblical, given after Barak, a military commander in the Book of Judges.
The Arabic word for "lightning" is Arabic: بُراق burāq. The epithet Barcas of the Punic general Hamilcar is from the same root, as is the name of Al-Buraq, the miraculous steed of Islamic mythology.
The given name is mostly Jewish, and predominantly found in Israel. However, it has occasionally been used by Anglo-Saxon Protestants in the early modern period, when there was a fashion for given names from the Hebrew Bible, as in the name of Barak Longmate, an 18th-century English genealogist.
People with the name[edit]
Notable people with the name include:
- Barak Norman (c.1670–c.1740), English musical instrument maker
- Barak Longmate (1738-1793), English genealogist and engraver
- Ehud Barak (born 1942), Israeli former prime minister
- Barak Sopé (born 1955), Vanuatu politician
- Barak Badash (born 1982), Israeli football player
- Barak Yitzhaki (born 1984), Israeli football player
- Barak Bakhar (born 1979), Israeli football player
- Barak Moshe (born 1991), Israeli football player
See also[edit]
- Barack (disambiguation)
- Barak (surname)
- Barak (disambiguation)
- Burak (disambiguation)
- Barakah
- Baraka (disambiguation)
- Baruch (given name)
- Barak
- Barcas
- Mubarak (name)
- All pages beginning with "Barak"
References[edit]
- ^ Murtonen, Aimo (1986). Hospers, J.H., ed. Hebrew in its West Semitic setting: a comparative survey of non-Masoretic Hebrew dialects and traditions. Leiden: E.J. Brill. ISBN 9789004088993.
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