Tabitha (, Koine Greek tabitha, Aramaic tabitha "female gazelle") is an English feminine given name, originating with (or made popular through) Tabitha (Dorcas), mentioned in the New Testament Acts 9:36.
Tabitha (, Koine Greek tabitha, Aramaic tabitha "female gazelle") is an English feminine given name, originating with (or made popular through) Tabitha (Dorcas), mentioned in the New Testament Acts 9:36.
==In the Bible== Tabitha (also known as Dorcas, the Greek equivalent of the name, from dorkas "≈ gazelle"), is a woman mentioned in the New Testament. The English name is derived from an Aramaic word, /ܛܒܝܬܐ ṭaḇīṯā "[female] gazelle", cf. Tzviya (classical ṣəḇīyāh). It is a biblical name from Acts of the Apostles (), which in the original Greek was , in which Tabitha, a benevolent woman, dies, then gets resurrected by Peter the Apostle.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).