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View Name: Hannibal
HANNIBAL
Gender:
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Pronounced:
HAN-i-bəl
(English)
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Means "grace of Ba'al" from Phoenician
hann
"grace" combined with the name of the god
BA'AL
. Hannibal was the Carthaginian general who threatened Rome during the Second Punic War in the 3rd century BC.
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