Hephzibah

[ hef-zuh-buh, -suh-, hep-suh-buh ]

noun

1. (in the Bible) the wife of Hezekiah and the mother of Manasseh.
2. (in the Bible) a name applied to Jerusalem. Compare Beulah ( def 1 ).
3. Also Hep·si·ba [] a female given name.

Example Sentences

The Guardian's Hephzibah Anderson said Keyes' book would win her something "long overdue in snootier literary quarters: respect".

From BBC

Cather was also struck by his younger sisters, writing to her nieces that the girls, Hephzibah and Yaltah, musicians too, were “almost as gifted and quite as handsome as he.”

From New York Times

It was the final stretch in what its participants have dubbed the Great Pigeon Relay: an ambitious, crowdsourced bid to transport an injured pigeon down the Eastern Seaboard, from Baltimore to the Ramsey Loft, a pigeon-specific rescue aviary in Hephzibah, Ga.

From Washington Post

In 2016, writer Hephzibah Anderson connected Dahl's work with child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim's study "The Uses of Enchantment."

From Salon

Byrapaka, a teacher at Hephzibah Middle School, was arrested a day after the victim’s mother reported a relationship between her 13-year-old son and his teacher, the Augusta Chronicle reported.

From Fox News