Ilie

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Romanian form of ELIAS.

ELIJAH   male   English, Hebrew, Biblical
From the Hebrew name אֱלִיָּהוּ ('Eliyyahu) meaning "my God is YAHWEH". Elijah was a Hebrew prophet and miracle worker, as told in the two Books of Kings in the Old Testament. He was active in the 9th century BC during the reign of King Ahab of Israel and his Phoenician-born queen Jezebel. Elijah confronted the king and queen over their idolatry of the Canaanite god Ba'al and other wicked deeds. At the end of his life he was carried to heaven in a chariot of fire, and was succeeded by Elisha. In the New Testament, Elijah and Moses appear next to Jesus when he is transfigured.

Because Elijah was a popular figure in medieval tales, and because his name was borne by a few early saints (who are usually known by the Latin form Elias), the name came into general use during the Middle Ages. In medieval England it was usually spelled Elis. It died out there by the 16th century, but it was revived by the Puritans in the form Elijah after the Protestant Reformation.
YAHWEH   male   Theology
A name of the Hebrew God, represented in Hebrew by the tetragrammaton ("four letters") יהוה (Yod Heh Vav Heh), which was transliterated into Roman script as Y H W H. Because it was considered blasphemous to utter the name of God, it was only written and never spoken, which resulted in the original pronunciation becoming lost. The name may have originally been derived from the old Semitic root הוה (hawah) meaning "to be" or "to become".
EQUIVALENTS
ARABIC: Ilyas
BIBLICAL GREEK: Elias, Eliou
BIBLICAL HEBREW: Eliyyahu
BIBLICAL LATIN: Elias, Helias
BIBLICAL: Elijah
BULGARIAN: Ilia, Ilija, Iliya
CROATIAN: Ilija
DANISH: Elias
DUTCH: Elia, Elian
ENGLISH: Elias, Elijah
FINNISH: Eelis, Elias, Eljas
FRENCH: Élie
GEORGIAN: Ilia
GERMAN: Elias
GREEK: Elias, Ilias
HEBREW: Elijah, Eliyahu, Eliyyahu
HUNGARIAN: Éliás, Illés
ICELANDIC: Elías
ITALIAN: Elia
MACEDONIAN: Ilija
MEDIEVAL ENGLISH: Elis
NORWEGIAN: Elias
OLD CHURCH SLAVIC: Ilia
POLISH: Eliasz
PORTUGUESE: Elias
RUSSIAN: Ilia, Ilya
SERBIAN: Ilija
SPANISH: Elías
SWEDISH: Elias, Elis
TURKISH: İlyas
DIMINUTIVES AND SHORT FORMS
MACEDONIAN: Ile
FEMININE FORMS
BULGARIAN: Iliana, Ilina, Iliyana
CROATIAN: Ilinka
GREEK: Iliana
MACEDONIAN: Ilina, Ilinka
SERBIAN: Ilinka
OTHER FORMS
ENGLISH: Eliot, Eliott, Elliot, Elliott, Ellis
THEOLOGY: Yahweh