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Does any one out there know what the name "Jebidiah" means? I do know that a man bearing the name includes famouse fur trader Jebidiah Smith, who traded beaver skins with the Asians. He got the skins from native americans in the Pacific Northwest portion of the united states.
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The fur trader was Jedediah Smith, NOT Jebediah Smith. Jedediah would simply be a variant spelling, deliberate or accidental, of the Old Testament name Jedidiah.
The form Jebediah has turned up on occasion in the USA since the Civil War. It is a name that blends Jeb with Jedidiah. Jeb is originally a nickname for the Confederate general Jeb Stuart, who was born James Ewell Brown Stuart. This is one of the first examples of a nickname being created from initials. Because of Stuart's fame, Jeb began to be used as a given name in the Southern USA, and some parents then expanded it to Jebediah, probably simply misremembering or mishearing the Biblical name Jedidiah, which had Jed as a common short form. This is one of the few examples where a blended name probably did come about "accidentally" through ignorance rather than being a deliberate creation.
The form Jebediah has turned up on occasion in the USA since the Civil War. It is a name that blends Jeb with Jedidiah. Jeb is originally a nickname for the Confederate general Jeb Stuart, who was born James Ewell Brown Stuart. This is one of the first examples of a nickname being created from initials. Because of Stuart's fame, Jeb began to be used as a given name in the Southern USA, and some parents then expanded it to Jebediah, probably simply misremembering or mishearing the Biblical name Jedidiah, which had Jed as a common short form. This is one of the few examples where a blended name probably did come about "accidentally" through ignorance rather than being a deliberate creation.
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Ty.
That was what I meant with the correction. I did in no way state that Jebediah was not a name, I merely stated that she meant Jedediah, due to the trader.
That was what I meant with the correction. I did in no way state that Jebediah was not a name, I merely stated that she meant Jedediah, due to the trader.
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Well . . .
I've seen Jebediah / Jebidiah in places - there's a Perth band with that name, for a start - so the OP hasn't necessarily mistaken it for Jedidiah. Whether the parents of various Jebediahs / Jebidiahs made that mistake is another matter.
Edited to add: perhaps it has come from Zebadiah?
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I've seen Jebediah / Jebidiah in places - there's a Perth band with that name, for a start - so the OP hasn't necessarily mistaken it for Jedidiah. Whether the parents of various Jebediahs / Jebidiahs made that mistake is another matter.
Edited to add: perhaps it has come from Zebadiah?
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
This message was edited 1/7/2006, 7:42 PM
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JEBEDIA sounds like a biblical name, but obviously it isn't. I haven't been able to find the verbal root JBD in Hebrew. There are thousands of hits for J., when you google, a very funny one being Jebediah Springfield, a character from the Sipmsons. So could it be made up?
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Mr. Springfield's name is actually Jebediah Obadiah Zachariah Jenediah Springfield, so his first name is clearly a joke.
'Course, Springfield was actually a fraud and a pirate whose real name was the far less glamorous Hans Sprungfeld.
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Mr. Springfield's name is actually Jebediah Obadiah Zachariah Jenediah Springfield, so his first name is clearly a joke.
'Course, Springfield was actually a fraud and a pirate whose real name was the far less glamorous Hans Sprungfeld.
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