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Subject: Re: Here you go
Author: Cleveland Kent Evans   (Authenticated as clevelandkentevans)
Date: March 10, 2006 at 10:18:35 AM
Reply to: Here you go by little_kit
IF Andy's source is correct in saying that Jathan is just a shortened form of Jonathan (an interpretation which seems very reasonable to me), then Jathan would go back to Hebrew words meaning "Yahweh has given", which is basically the same thing as "gift of God."

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