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in reply to a message by Murasaki
I like Dinah (but I pronounce it with a long I sound-- not like the two pronunciations you gave).
However, the only reason I'd be hesitant to use it personally is that the story of Dinah in the Old Testament of the Bible is pretty sad/grusome.
She is raped, and then her brothers get revenge by tricking the men of the town where this occurred to become circumcised so they were too weak to fight back when attacked.
"Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, 'You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.' But they said, 'Should he treat our sister as a harlot?'"
Anyway, if you don't think the Bible story will ever come up in your life it's probably a great name. I just know it would be too much baggage for me.
However, the only reason I'd be hesitant to use it personally is that the story of Dinah in the Old Testament of the Bible is pretty sad/grusome.
She is raped, and then her brothers get revenge by tricking the men of the town where this occurred to become circumcised so they were too weak to fight back when attacked.
"Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, 'You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.' But they said, 'Should he treat our sister as a harlot?'"
Anyway, if you don't think the Bible story will ever come up in your life it's probably a great name. I just know it would be too much baggage for me.
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