Hephzibah
Americannoun
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(in the Bible) the wife of Hezekiah and the mother of Manasseh.
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(in the Bible) a name applied to Jerusalem.
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Also Hepsiba a female given name.
Example Sentences
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Bisola Hephzibah Johnson, another former disciple, told the BBC she persuaded Marten not to return to Scoan in 2013 to carry out secret filming for her documentary, saying it would be too dangerous.
From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025
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 • Jan. 4, 2024
In 2016, writer Hephzibah Anderson connected Dahl's work with child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim's study "The Uses of Enchantment."
From Salon • Oct. 24, 2020
In her future books, I hope MacBird lets us see even more of Holmes’s female Baker Street Irregular, the street-smart, half-Irish, half-Jewish cockney Hephzibah O’Malley.
From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2019
Hephzibah stared at her with an expression of stupefied amazement, while Sarah turned in her chair with a 325 movement which was almost a jolt.
From The Hound From The North by Bull, Charles Livingston
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