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From the Hebrew name יִתְרוֹ (Yiṯro), which was derived from the Hebrew word יֶתֶר (yeṯer) meaning "abundance" [1]. According to the Old Testament, Jethro was a Midianite priest who sheltered Moses when he fled Egypt. He was the father of Zipporah, who became Moses's wife. A famous bearer of the name was Jethro Tull (1674-1741), an English inventor and agriculturist.
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- Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h3499, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h3499.