Rube

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Short form of REUBEN.

REUBEN   male   Biblical, Hebrew, English
Means "behold, a son" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament he is the eldest son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Reuben was cursed by his father because he slept with Jacob's concubine Bilhah. It has been used as a Christian name in Britain since the Protestant Reformation.
FULL FORMS
ENGLISH: Reuben
EQUIVALENTS
ARMENIAN: Rouben, Ruben
BIBLICAL GREEK: Rouben
BIBLICAL HEBREW: Reuven
BIBLICAL LATIN: Ruben
BIBLICAL: Reuben
DANISH: Ruben
DUTCH: Ruben
FINNISH: Ruuben
FRENCH: Ruben
HEBREW: Reuben, Reuven
NORWEGIAN: Ruben
PORTUGUESE (BRAZILIAN): Rubem, Rubens
PORTUGUESE: Rúben, Rubinho
SPANISH: Rubén
SWEDISH: Ruben