name
Dvoyre
DVOY-ruh
ˈdvɔɪrəListen
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Dvoyre
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Yiddish (Jewish diaspora)
- Meaning
- a Yiddish feminine name, the Ashkenazi adaptation of the Hebrew Devorah, meaning bee or the one who speaks; in the Hebrew Bible, Devorah is a prophetess, judge, and military leader who led Israel to victory over the Canaanite general Sisera, one of the most powerful female figures in the entire Hebrew scriptural tradition; a daughter named Dvoyre inherits the associations of this commanding biblical ancestor — eloquence, courage, prophetic insight, and the willingness to lead when leadership is desperately needed; the name's Yiddish phonological form marks it as specifically rooted in the Ashkenazi cultural world of Eastern Europe
- Gender
- female
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