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SHARON
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Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Biblical
Other Scripts: שָׁרוֹן (Hebrew)
Pronounced: SHER-ən (English), SHAR-ən (English) [key]
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From an Old Testament place name meaning "plain" in Hebrew, referring to the fertile plain near the coast of Israel. This is also the name of a type of flowering shrub, the rose of Sharon. It has been in use as a given name since the 1920s, possibly inspired by the heroine in the serial novel 'The Skyrocket' (1925) by Adela Rogers St. Johns. |
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