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Re: Well . . .
by Andy ;—) (guest)
1/7/2006, 11:12 PM
in reply to a message by Chrisell
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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- Chrisell   +2
1/8/2006, 12:05 AM
I think it is probably made up, in the sense that someone's taken the starting sound of Jedidiah and the ending sounds of Zebadiah and mixed them together.
♦ Chrisell ♦All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.

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- Miranda (Randee15)
1/9/2006, 6:48 PM
YesMr. 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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- The Little Hyphen
1/8/2006, 12:16 PM
Or Jedidiah and Obadiah?

This message was edited 1/8/2006, 12:17 PM

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