Tabitha
Sign in to saveTabitha (, 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.
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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.
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