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We present our many thanks to Our God-Father
and to Our King of Kings, to His Imperial
Majesty, HAILE SELLASSIE I’s Kingdome in the
Glorious name of Iyesus Kristos, Our Saviour –
Our Lord of Lords.
AMEN AND AMEN.
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THE BIBLE SOCIETY OF
HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY (BSHIM)
PUBLISHED BY: H.H. RAS IADONIS TAFARI,
& H.H. WOIZERO TEHETENA GIRMA-ASFAW
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A
DICTIONARY
OF
ANCIENT & BEAUTIFUL
BIBLICAL NAMES
IN THE Royal
AMHARIC
WITH ENGLISH
TRANSLATIONS & NOTES
*Including Many Rare & Meaningful Names
not Found in Other Amharic Name Books
Compiled by: Tehetena Girma-Asfaw
Co-Edited by: Ras Iadonis Tafari
Presented by
THE LION OF JUDAH SOCIETY
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Ras Iadonis Tafari`
page 15
What’s In A Name?
page 17
Introduction to the 1st Edition
page 19
Comparison Quotation:
Proverbs 22:1 [KJV & HIS]
page 23
Biblical Names in Amharic – A
page 25
Biblical Names in Amharic – B
page 51
Biblical Names in Amharic – C
page 60
Biblical Names in Amharic – D
page 66
Biblical Names in Amharic – E
page 72
Biblical Names in Amharic – F
page 90
Biblical Names in Amharic – G
page 91
Biblical Names in Amharic – H
page 96
Biblical Names in Amharic – I
page 111
Biblical Names in Amharic – J
page 121
Biblical Names in Amharic – K
page 160
Biblical Names in Amharic – L
page 167
Biblical Names in Amharic – M
page 174
Biblical Names in Amharic – N
page 192
Biblical Names in Amharic – O
page 202
Biblical Names in Amharic – P
page 206
Biblical Names in Amharic – Q
page 214
Biblical Names in Amharic – R
page 214
Biblical Names in Amharic – S
page 222
Biblical Names in Amharic – T
page 252
Biblical Names in Amharic – U
page 261
Biblical Names in Amharic – V
page 263
Biblical Names in Amharic – W, x
page 264
Biblical Names in Amharic – Y
page 264
Biblical Names in Amharic – Z
page 264
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FOREWORD
In writing this briefly composed, yet heartfelt foreword on
behalf my lovely sister-wife, my co-labourer in ministry
and the compiler of the present volume, entitled Biblical
Names in Amharic, Wzo. Tehetena Girma-Asfaw’s very
first published work, I am quite pleased and honoured to
also mention the great service, and no doubt benefit, that
this Amharic Book of Biblical Names will be to all
Ethiopians at home and abroad; with a special due
emphasis to all those sincere Rastafarians, Ethiopians at
home and abroad, including the Black Jews, or Hebrews
of the diaspora in the Western hemisphere who have long
requested such a well-researched, documented and edited
preliminary volume for quite some time.
An overview is here in order: namely, that this present
edition was in a pre-production status for several years
now, while a diligent in-gathering of many factual pieces
of available information was compiled and subsequent
comparisons made alongside the H.I.M. Amharic Bible
has eventually been achieved as a basic prerequisite for
the inclusion of each and every name included in this
book. Thus, the names, definitions and related data herein
has gone through several necessary updates and a few
revisions over the years in order to be as thorough,
complete and useful as possible: including detailed
explanations, transliterations for pronunciation and a
variety of biblical references for a better contextual clarity
of the persons who have given, in part or whole, a
character to a particular name.
Although somewhat exhaustive, it is easy-to-read and a
prerequisite study for the newcomer as well as the more
advanced student of the bible. The dictionary-like entries
are also highly accurate, verifiable and reliable due to the
fact that it is based upon the general etymological
evidences available from a combination of sources,
namely – the biblical Hebrew, New Testament Greek and
