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[Facts] rare hebrew names?
i would like to know if the meaning for the names Chelam (male), Abrokim (male) and Patima (female) can be found anywhere. the male names to my knowledge are of Hebrew origin.
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None of the three names is listed in Smadar Shir Sidi's "Complete Book of Hebrew Names."
None of them appears in the Bible - at least not in the form given here.CHELAM: Name of a city mentioned in 2 Samuel 10:16
CHELEM: Misspelling of CHELDAI
There are two verbal stems in Hebrew CHET-LAMED-MEM; one means "dream," the other "strong, healthy."ABROKIM: Looks like in interesting variant of ABRAHAM to mePATIMA: Reminds me, too, of FATIMA. (There is an F in Hebrew, though; it's the same character as P, just without the little dot inside. The same with V and B)
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Patima is almost certainly Fatima, which is Arabic. (You can click the link.) Some peoples cannot pronounce F (my culture comes to mind) and change their pronunciation to P. As far as I know, there's no F in Hebrew, which may be why you have Patima instead of Fatima. (Interestingly enough, there's no P in Arabic.)
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