Document: The Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Latin name:Liber interpretationis Hebraicorum nominum or Liber de nominibus Hebraicis
Reference:CPL 581
Incipit: Philo vir disertissimus
Date: c. 389/391 (Kelly p. 153)

Earliest ms.:

Paris, France: Bibliotheque Nationale, Lat. 13348 8th century. (Lambert, II: p. 28)

Latin Text: P. de Lagarde, G. Morin, M. Adriaen (eds.) . Hieronymus: Hebraicae quaestiones in libro Geneseos. Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum. .... CChr.SL 72 (Turnholti : Brepols, 1959)

Migne, Liber de Nominibus Hebraicis, PL vol. 23, coll. 771-858. 

English Translation:Preface translated by W.H. Fremantle, "Preface to the Book of Hebrew Names" in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York, 1893), p. 485.
Notes:This book was apparently an improvement upon a third-century word list, now lost (Kelly, p. 154).  It explains etymologies of Hebrew names used in the Bible.


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