Entry № 7706 · Hebrew origin

Oholibamah Oholibamah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oh-hoh-lee-BAH-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Tent of the high place (Esau's Hivite wife)"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "tent of the high place (esau's hivite wife)".

Oholibamah (אָהֳלִיבָמָה) means "tent of the high place" in Hebrew. In Genesis 36:2, Oholibamah was the Hivite daughter of Anah and one of Esau's wives — ancestress of three Edomite chieftains.

Rare but iconic in biblical scholarship.

Tent of the high place. Esau's Hivite wife.

The name in its native script.

אָהֳלִיבָמָה
Transliteration
ʾOhŏlîḇāmāh
Pronunciation
/ ˌoʊ.hoʊ.liˈbɑː.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Oholibamah stands.

Oholibamah 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.

Oholibamahs before her.

Real people
Oholibamah
Esau's wife.
In fiction
Oholibamah
Genesis 36:2.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Oholibamah.

The number behind Oholibamah.

3

The Communicator

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