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Isaiah

Meaning — From the Hebrew Yeshayahu meaning "God is salvation" or "Yahweh is salvation", composed of yesha' (salvation, deliverance) and Yah (a shortened form of Yahweh, the divine name). Isaiah was the eighth-century BC Hebrew prophet whose book contains the most extensive messianic prophecies in the Old Testament, including the Suffering Servant passages applied to Jesus in Christian theology.·Latin origin·Male·eye-ZAY-ah

Isaiah Isaiah carries the full prophetic charge of the Hebrew scriptural tradition — a name given to the prophet whose vision of divine justice and coming redemption has inspired Jewish, Christian, and Islamic readers for twenty-seven centuries. The concept of salvation-as-action at the root of the name implies a character who does not wait for rescue but participates in the process of deliverance. It suits protagonists who speak uncomfortable truths to power and whose words outlast the consequences they face for speaking them.

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