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Keziah, pronounced in Hebrew as "Ketzi'ah" was the name of one of Job's daughters after his ordeal had ended. It refers to the cassia tree or rather the spicy sweet smelling cinnamon powder that was obtained from the plant and used as a perfume at the time. Job often mentions in the scriptures how he was so miserable, he "sat in ashes", "he repents in ashes". Ashes are a sign of deep grief and mourning. That when God had healed and restored everything to him, more than he previously had, he named his now second daughter Keziah as a perfumed cinnamon powder a symbol of restoration and beauty in contrast to his ashes of grief and mourning.
The name is derived from the Hebrew qatsa, which means "to cut off, strip off bark". (http://takeourword.com/current/page1.html)
Might mean "polished, refined" in Hebrew. Job gave all three of his later daughters unusual names associated with beauty and purity.

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