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Jothar
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Some of today’s modern Hebrew names are picked to be antagonistic to the religious. Names like Reshef (demon), Nimrod (rasha), Anat (the name of an avoda zarah!) , Omri (rasha), et al.

More Yiddish

Feivel comes from Feivish which comes from Phobos meaning light. Shraga means torch. the name is Shraga Phobos.

Anshel comes from Anshelm, and old German name.

Ettel is Ethel, German for noble.

Yentle is “Gentle”.

Berel means “little bear”, for someone named dov.

Velvel means “wolf”, for someone named Binyomin or Zev.

Zlata is like the English Penny.

Leibel means little lion- Aryeh Leib.

Hershel means little deer, for someone named Tzvi or Naftali.

Mendel is a form of Menachem.

Feigel means little bird- like Tzipporah

Baila either means “white” or the Italian “Bella” meaning beautiful.

NOT loshon hakodesh.