60%RatingSave Gender Masculine Usage Yiddish (Rare) Scripts פֿייװיש(Yiddish) פייבישׁ(Hebrew) Meaning & HistoryExpand Links Yiddish form of Phoebus, apparently used as a translation of Shimshon (see Samson) [1]. Related NamesFamily Tree·Details RootphoibosVariantFeivushDiminutivesFayvel, FeivelOther Languages & CulturesPhoibos(Ancient Greek) Phoebus, Phoibos(Greek Mythology) Sources & References Hanks, Patrick and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford, 1990, page 114.
