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   Evertjan. to G6JPG-255@255soft.uk   
   Re: names (was: Re: Talking of surnames    
   10 Apr 19 23:16:49   
   
   From: exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net   
      
   "J. P. Gilliver (John)"  wrote on 10 Apr 2019 in   
   soc.genealogy.britain:   
      
   > I have in my tree at least one Thirza/Thirzen, which I'm pretty sure   
   > means thirteenth. (She's the twelfth that I know of, but I could easily   
   > be unaware of one.) The other 11 (that I know of) are conventional   
   > names.   
      
   Tirzah/Tirtzah [Biblical Hebrew] = “favourable”   
      
   1) one of the 7 daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher of the tribe of   
   Manasseh (noun proper feminine)   
      
   2) one of the kingdoms on the west of the Jordan conquered by Joshua and the   
   Israelites (noun proper locative)   
      
   3) a Canaanite city, later capital of the northern kingdom of Israel (noun   
   proper locative)   
      
      
      
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