Entry № 4175 · Hebrew origin

Helah Helah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HEE-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Rust, sickness (Ashhur's first wife)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "rust, sickness (ashhur's first wife)".

Helah (חֶלְאָה) means "rust" or possibly "sickness" in Hebrew. In 1 Chronicles 4:5, Helah was the first wife of Ashhur — paired with Naarah, both mentioned as mothers of his sons.

Among the most obscure biblical women's names.

Rust. The Judahite first wife of Ashhur.

The name in its native script.

חֶלְאָה
Transliteration
Ḥelʾāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈhiː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Helah stands.

Helah 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.

Helahs before her.

Real people
Helah
Ashhur's first wife.
In fiction
Helah
1 Chronicles 4:5.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Helah.

The number behind Helah.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Helah reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.