Ezra
[藞蓻z.r蓹]Meaning
means "help" in Hebrew
Background Story
Ezra comes from the Biblical Hebrew 注侄讝职专指讗 (士ezr膩), meaning "help", and is a doublet of Esdras, the form the name takes in the Greek Septuagint and Latin. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the Protestant Reformation, and is also used in Arabic, Biblical Greek, Biblical Latin, Quranic and Urdu. The American poet Ezra Pound was a famous bearer.
Temperament
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