Itamar_(name)

Itamar (name)

Itamar (name)

Hebrew male given name

For the settlement in the West Bank, see Itamar (Israeli settlement).

Itamar (Hebrew: אִיתָמָר, romanized: ʼĪtamar), also transcribed to English as Etamar, Isamar or Ithamar, is a Hebrew male given name. It originated with Ithamar, named in the Old Testament of the Bible (which is based on the Tanakh including the Torah) as the youngest son of Aaron.

It is common to interpret the name Itamar (אִיתָמָר) as a compound of two Hebrew words: "אִי" (í) means "island" and "תָמָר" (tamár) means "date palm". So Itamar would literally mean "Date Island".

However, the name is probably from Aramaic; "itmar" in aramaic means "saying" (both as a verb and as a noun),[1] and "itamar" is a past form of this word that means "it was said" or "it is told". This original meaning is preserved in the Talmud.[2][3]

Itamar may refer to:

People

References

  1. [1]
    "איתמר". Itim (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  2. [2]
    "מילון אבניאון - מה זה איתמר – פירוש המילה איתמר ,פרוש, הסבר, משמעות והגדרה". www.milononline.net. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  3. [3]
    "מילון מונחי הדיון התלמודי". www.daat.ac.il. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
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