Martha

From Aramaic מַרְתָּא (marta) meaning "the lady, the mistress" [1] [2] , feminine form of מָרֵא (mare) meaning "master" [3] . In the New Testament this is the name of the sister of Lazarus and Mary of Bethany (who is sometimes identified with Mary Magdalene). She was a witness to Jesus restoring her dead brother to life.The name was not used in England until after the Protestant Reformation. A notable bearer was Martha Washington (1731-1802), the wife of the first American president George Washington. It is also borne by the media personality Martha Stewart (1941-).

classic mature formal upper class natural wholesome strong refined simple serious

1. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry g3136, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=g3136.
2. Withycombe, Elizabeth Gidley. The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names. Oxford, 1945, page 92.
3. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h4756, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h4756.

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