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Izziah meaning

Izziah in Biblical Hebrew
יזיה
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🔼The name Izziah: Summary

Meaning
Yah Sprinkles
Etymology
From (1) the verb נזה (naza), to sprinkle, and (2) יה (yah), the shortened name of the Lord.
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• Via נזה (naza): Ashkenaz
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🔼The name Izziah in the Bible

The name Izziah (by some translators spelled Jeziah) occurs only one time in the Bible. He is mentioned among those Israelites — specifically among the sons of Parosh — who divorced their foreign wives during the purge of Ezra (Ezra 10:25).

🔼Etymology of the name Izziah

The name Izziah consists of two elements; the final one being יה (Yah) = יהו (Yahu) = יו (Yu), which in turn are abbreviated forms of the Tetragrammaton; the name of the Lord: YHWH.

The first part of our name appears to be a future form of the verb נזה (naza), meaning to sprinkle. The letter נ (nun) of this verb tends to drop out in certain grammatical constructions, as is the case with our name Izziah:

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary
נזה

The verb נזה (naza) means to sprinkle and mostly describes ritualistic sprinkling of mostly blood and sometimes water.

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🔼Izziah meaning

For a meaning of the name Izziah, NOBSE Study Bible Name List reads Yahweh Sprinkles. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names has He Will Be Sprinkled Of The Lord. And BDB Theological Dictionary proposes May Yah Sprinkle.