Entry № 1518 · Hebrew origin

Bithiah Bithiah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BIT-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Daughter of God (Moses's adoptive mother)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "daughter of god (moses's adoptive mother)".

Bithiah (בִּתְיָה) means "daughter of God" in Hebrew. In 1 Chronicles 4:18, Bithiah is identified as the Pharaoh's daughter who drew Moses from the Nile and adopted him — Jewish tradition gives her this name (Bat-Yah, "daughter of YHWH") in honor of her saving act.

Featured prominently in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956).

Daughter of God (Moses's adoptive mother) — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

בִּתְיָה
Transliteration
Biṯyāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɪt.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bithiah stands.

Bithiah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Bithiahs before her.

Real people
Bithiah
Pharaoh's daughter who adopted Moses.
In fiction
Bithiah
Featured in The Ten Commandments.
1956 film

Names connected to Bithiah.

The number behind Bithiah.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bithiah reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.