| Hebrew Name | Meaning or History | Gender |
Bar
בַּר | Grain, cereal; grain cleaned of its chaff; clean, pure; wild, outside, in the nature; son. |   |
Barak
בָּרָק | Lightning. | |
Baruch (Barux)
בָּרוּךְ | Blessed. | |
Bashemath (Basmat, Bosmat)
בָּשְׂמַת | The Biblical pronunciation is "Basmat"; today, it is often pronounced "Bosmat". | |
Bath-Sheba (Bat-Sheva)
בַּת-שֶׁבַע | Literally, the meaning of the name is "seven-year old (girl)", but following the etymology of the city name Be'er-Sheva, the name Bat-Sheva can be understood as "(a woman) of oath" (see Genesis 26, 31-33). | |
Batya
בַּתְיָה | God's (יה) daughter (bat, בת). | |
Ben
בֵּן | Boy, son, child. | |
Benjamin (Binyamin)
בִּנְיָמִין | The youngest son of Jacob and Rachel. | |
Bezaleel (Betsalel, Betsal’el)
בְּצַלְאֵל | The name seems to be composed of the words בצל (batsal, “onion”) and אל (el, “God”). | |
Boaz (Bo'az)
בֹּעַז (בועז) | The second husband of Ruth the Moabitess. The father of King David's grandfather. | |
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