Barnabas

Greek form of an Aramaic name [1] . In Acts in the New Testament the byname Barnabas was given to a man named Joseph, a Jew from Cyprus who was a companion of Paul on his missionary journeys. The original Aramaic form is unattested, but it may be from בּר נביא (bar navi) meaning "son of the prophet" [2] [3] , though in Acts 4:36 it is claimed that the name means "son of encouragement".As an English name, Barnabas came into occasional use after the 12th century [4] . It is now rare, though the variant Barnaby is still moderately common in Britain.

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1. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry g921, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=g921.
2. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h1247, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h1247.
3. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h5029, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h5029.
4. Withycombe, Elizabeth Gidley. The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names. Oxford, 1945, page 20.

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