Entry № 4224 · Hebrew origin

Hephzibah Hephzibah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HEF-zih-bah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"My delight is in her"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "my delight is in her".

Hephzibah (חֶפְצִי בָהּ) is a Hebrew phrase meaning "my delight is in her." Mentioned in 2 Kings 21:1 as the mother of King Manasseh; the name also appears in Isaiah 62:4 as a poetic name for restored Jerusalem.

Hephzibah is widely used in religious Christian and Jewish families.

My delight is in her. The Hebrew Bible's blessing.

The name in its native script.

חֶפְצִי בָהּ
Transliteration
Ḥep̱tsī-ḇāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɛf.zɪ.bə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hephzibah stands.

Hephzibah 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.

Hephzibahs before her.

Real people
Hephzibah Menuhin
American pianist.
1920 – 1981
In fiction
Hephzibah Pyncheon
Character in The House of the Seven Gables.
1851 novel

Names connected to Hephzibah.

The number behind Hephzibah.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hephzibah reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.