by Andy ;—) (guest)
2/22/2008, 7:24 AM
Smadar Shir Sidi, The Complete Book of Hebrew Baby Names, says.
(gimel-yod-vav-resh-aleph or he)
A symbolic name for boys born on Lag b'Omer because Shimon bar Giora was one of the leaders in the war against Rome. Bar Gioaa is the name of a place (moshav), and also the name of a mountain in Israel near Jerusalem.
My Hebrew dictionary "Hamilon hekhadash" (A. Even-Shoshan) lists:
Gior (gimel-yod-resh) / Aramaic: Giora (-aleph)
stranger, proselyte; non-Jew who has accepted the Jewish religion