Israeli names

[davewitley]

Neri explains:

(explanation mainly snipped)

> Naama is a biblical name. 

> I think this name was very rarely used by jews through most 
history, 
> perhaps because the original Naama was not a jew but an ammonites. 
> The Ammonites were a related Semitic people that was sometimes at 
war 
> with the Judea and Israeli kingdoms. 

Thank you Neri, for an interesting and informative explanation.

Presumably some of the other names you mention were not favoured in 
the past for similar reasons, e.g. Omri was not well-regarded by the 
Biblical authors, and Evyatar (Abiathar in English translations, 
right?) was last in the line of priests that was superseded by Zadok 
after Samuel's denunciation of Eli.

David