[Avodah] Names in Aramaic and other languages

Akiva Miller akivagmiller at gmail.com
Sun Oct 26 14:30:56 PDT 2025


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This is a follow-up to my post of about 7 hours ago.

I suddenly realized that there are *many* people who use different names
depending on the language, country, or culture they are in.

In Megilas Ester: Hebrew: Hadassah, Persian: Esther
In the gospels: Hebrew: Shaul, Latin: Paul
At this keyboard: Hebrew: Akiva, English: Kenneth

But my question still stands: Do we see this anywhere in Onkelos?

Akiva Miller

Moshe Rabenu had ten names, but I'm not sure that they were differentiated
by language; they might have been titles or nicknames, and not relevant to
this thread. That's certainly true of Hoshea/Yehoshua, Yaakov/Yisrael, and
probably many others.
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