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Huffman is a Bohemian American surname likely derived from the German surname "Hoffman". Notable people with the surname include: Alaina Huffman (born 1980), Canadian actress
Hoffman is a surname of German origin. The original meaning in medieval times was "steward", i.e. one who manages the property of another. In English and other European languages, including Yiddish and Dutch, the name can also be spelled Hoffmann, Hofmann, Hofman, Huffman, and Hofmans.
The origin of Jewish family names: morphology and history. P. Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-5644-7. Eva Horowitz and Heinrich Guggenheimer: Jewish Family Names and their Origins: an etymological dictionary. KTAV 1992, ISBN 978-0-88125-297-2, 882 pages; What’s in a Name? 25 Jewish Stories. Jewish Museum of Switzerland, Biel 2022. ISBN 978-3-907262-34-4.
David Nachum Hoffman (1 February 1954 - 7 March 2011) was an American rabbi. He was best known as the spiritual leader of Temple Israel in Cape Town , South Africa from 1989 - 2006. [ 1 ]
Jesus is presented as the long-awaited Messiah, who was expected to be a descendant of King David. Matthew begins by calling Jesus the son of David, indicating his royal origin, and also son of Abraham, indicating that he was an Israelite; both are stock phrases, in which son means descendant, calling to mind the promises God made to David and ...
Huffman coding, a data compression algorithm (Huffman tree) by David A. Huffman; Huffman Dam, near Fairborn, Ohio; Huffman Historic District, Dayton, Ohio, on the National Register of Historic Places; Huffman Prairie, Ohio, also known as Huffman Field, a field used by the Wright brothers for testing and training; Hoffman (disambiguation)
Example: Leah bat David v ' Sarah; Neutral: [Hebrew given name] mibeit or mimishpachat [parents' Hebrew given names] Example: Lior mibeit David v ' Sarah OR Lior mimishpachat David v ' Sarah; The chosen Hebrew name can be related to the child's secular given name, but it does not have to be. The name is typically Biblical or based in Modern ...
Ossuary inscriptions invariably show full Hebrew name forms. David Flusser suggested that the short name Yeshu for Jesus in the Talmud was 'almost certainly' a dialect form of Yeshua, based on the swallowing of the ayin noted by Paul Billerbeck, [11] but most scholars follow the traditional understanding of the name as a polemical reduction. [12]