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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?
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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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