Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Ebenezer

EBENEZER

Gender: Masculine

Other Scripts: אֶבֶן הָעָזֶר (Hebrew)

Pronounced: eb-ə-NEE-zər (English) [key]

Means "stone of help" in Hebrew. This was the name of a monument erected by Samuel in the Old Testament. The name was used by Charles Dickens for the miserly character Ebenezer Scrooge in his novel 'A Christmas Carol' (1843).

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