name
Eliezer
eh-lee-EH-zer
ɛliˈɛzərListen
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Syllable breakdown
Eliezer
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Papiamento (Caribbean/Netherlands Antilles)
- Meaning
- a Papiamento masculine name of Hebrew origin meaning my God is help, widely used in Curaçao and Aruba partly because of the historic Sephardic Jewish community of Curaçao, one of the oldest and most significant Jewish communities in the Western Hemisphere; Sephardic Jews who fled the Inquisition settled in Curaçao from the seventeenth century and played a major role in its commercial and cultural development; the Mikvé Israel-Emanuel synagogue in Willemstad, consecrated in 1732, is the oldest synagogue in continuous use in the Americas, and Hebrew names like Eliezer remain a living trace of this heritage in Papiamento-speaking society
- Gender
- male
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