Caleb?

[Anonymous]

Yes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm neutral on the name re: sound of it, but I don't love that it means "dog."

What? No it doesn't.

Caleb is a Hebrew masculine given name. The Hebrew meaning offered for Caleb is "faithful, devotion, whole hearted, bold, brave". This is on the basis of its being actually a compound word, a phenomenon quite common in ancient Hebrew.

Bummer, if it had meant dog I'd have snagged it for my future son's middle name! Were you thinking of Connor? (My other son's middle name, lol)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love it. It would have been my daughter’s name.

Wtf? Is not a boys name? Wtf?

Uh yes it is a boys name. PP meant if she had a boy she would have used it, but instead she had a girl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm neutral on the name re: sound of it, but I don't love that it means "dog."

What? No it doesn't.

Caleb is a Hebrew masculine given name. The Hebrew meaning offered for Caleb is "faithful, devotion, whole hearted, bold, brave". This is on the basis of its being actually a compound word, a phenomenon quite common in ancient Hebrew.

Bummer, if it had meant dog I'd have snagged it for my future son's middle name! Were you thinking of Connor? (My other son's middle name, lol)

See:

According to The Jewish Encyclopedia, "since 'Caleb' signifies dog, it has been thought that the dog was the totem of [Caleb's] clan".[1] The New American Standard Exhaustive Concordance states that the name Kaleb (Caleb) is related to the word for "dog" (keleb).[2] The Bible was written down centuries before Hebrew diacritics were introduced, and there is no certain knowledge of how the name was pronounced when the biblical text was written.

In Modern Hebrew, the name is pronounced [kaˈlev]; the modern English pronunciation /ˈkeɪləb/ is courtesy of the Great Vowel Shift.

An alternate Hebrew meaning offered for Caleb is "faithful, zealous, ruthless, bold, brave". This is on the basis of its being actually a compound word, a phenomenon quite common in ancient Hebrew. Col (כל‎, Kaf + Lamed) = "all" or "whole"; Lev (לב‎, Lamed + Bet) means "heart". Therefore, Caleb (or Calev as pronounced in Hebrew) would actually mean "whole hearted" or “singleminded”. This might be due to the personal qualities of the Biblical Caleb, a companion of Moses and Joshua.

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Origin of the name Caleb:
Hebrew name meaning "a dog; faithful." It is borne in the Bible by a leader of the Israelites, one of those sent by Moses to scout out the land in the second year after the Exodus. He and Joshua were the only people over the age of twenty to enter the Promised Land.

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https://www.winklermb.com/whole-hearted/

[Anonymous]

It makes me think Latter Day Saints cult young boy being raised with 18 other siblings and 5 moms, the you gets of which is only a few years older than him.