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Hebron

name

Meaning

  1. A number of places in the United States:
  2. A town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
  3. A village and township in McHenry County, Illinois.
  4. A former settlement in California.
  5. A town in Boone Township, Porter County, Indiana; named for a local Associate Reformed Presbyterian church, itself named for the city in Palestine.
  6. A township in Kossuth County, Iowa.
  7. An unincorporated community in Grand River Township, Adair County, Iowa; named for the city in Palestine.
  8. A city in the West Bank, Palestine; holy in both Judaism and Islam.

Etymology / origin

Borrowed from Latin Hebrōn, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew חֶבְרוֹן (Ḥeḇrōn), possibly via Ancient Greek Χεβρών (Khebrṓn).

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