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Lazarus

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tummytickler · 25/04/2009 20:38

Hi
Dh and i both like Lazarus, but is it at all usable or does it just conjur up images of leprosy etc.
Also is it too biblical with brothers Eli adn Amos?

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Gillyan · 27/04/2009 23:57

ooh not keen, sorry

Tinker · 27/04/2009 23:33

I quite like it, it's a good word to say out loud. I'd go with Jesse though if you want biblical - assume it's biblical since it's old - goes with you other names as well

blinks · 27/04/2009 23:04

with that name he could become a Chippendale.

bigted · 27/04/2009 22:22

fairlady, Amos is one of the books of the old testament

bigted · 27/04/2009 22:21

NO! PLEASE!
or is this a joke?

FairLadyOfMuslinCloth · 27/04/2009 22:07

the only Amos I was exposed to when growing up in Germany was Amos Slate, the character in the Fox and the Hound....or Cop and Copper in germany....
I honestly can not recall a Amos in the Bible...however...Matthew is Mathias, etc...so, who knows...
honest go for Noah...it's a gorgeous name imo...if I had 1/2 a chance one of my 3 would have been called Noah!

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tummytickler · 27/04/2009 22:05

Hmmm - Laszlo? I am going to check it out for origin and meaning and put it to dh.

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hunkermunker · 27/04/2009 22:01

Laszlo?

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tummytickler · 27/04/2009 22:00

Oh, but Amos is my little boy tucked up in bed with the chicken pox! I didnt notice a beard when i put him to bed

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paolosgirl · 27/04/2009 21:56

Amos is the old boy in Emmerdale. He cannot be anything else

Not keen on Lazarus at all.

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tummytickler · 27/04/2009 21:50

Yes - Amos was a prophet, and also there is a Book of Amos in the Old Testament.

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FairLadyOfMuslinCloth · 27/04/2009 21:36

not keen on that , sorry...think Levi or Noah or Joseph, well...more commonly used Biblical names might be better....although, is Amos, biblical....(my excuse is, I am german, and that might be why I never heard it used in a biblical sense )....Amos, possibly wornly strikes me, for no particular reason, as a Irish/Scottish nmae....but somehow not biblical

Tommy · 27/04/2009 21:23

DDG - I bow to your higher liturgical knowledge

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TheFallenMadonna · 26/04/2009 12:54

Lazarus may be a biblical step too far IMO. Ezra, Isaac and Josiah much more user-friendly I think if you are going for that feel.

Dumbledoresgirl · 26/04/2009 12:41

In medieval times there were leprosy hospitals set up by the Order of St Lazarus. You can read more here and, incidentally, it seems Lazarus of Mary and Martha fame, did have leprosy. Which is presumably why the leprosy hospitals were named after him.

That aside, I think it is an interesting name and I would not think the leprosy association, nor the raising from the dead association need put you off. Most saints had some fairly revolting lives or endings to their lives (St Peter was crucified upside down for instance) but it does not put us off the names.

Ronaldinhio · 26/04/2009 12:31

you are kidding, right?

wastingmyeducation · 26/04/2009 12:28

Ooh, yes! Heinlein and Nick Cave! Hurrah!

singersgirl · 26/04/2009 12:19

Sometimes I wonder if some of these name suggestions are for real.

Lazarus in English is only known as the guy who was already stinking in his tomb when Jesus supposedly raised him from the dead.

I guess being raised from the dead is a pretty positive association. But it somehow seems...macabre.

CoteDAzur · 26/04/2009 11:13

I quite like it.

The only image it conjures up in my mind is that of Lazarus Long, the long-lived protagonist of Robert Heinlein's books Methuselah's Children, Time Enough For Love, To Sail Beyond The Sunset, etc

violethill · 26/04/2009 11:11

I'd second whoever suggested Josiah. Beautiful. Jos for short.

Peachy · 26/04/2009 10:57

I had a cat known as Lazarus as he did cheat death

A baby, no. Not very apropriate at all.

Isaac? Samuel? Saul? Asiel? Barnabas? Judah? Seth?

PuppyMonkey · 26/04/2009 10:55

Tommy, I was thinking that. I didn't think it was leprosy with old Lazy.... see there's your nickname. Will have to go and look in the Bible now just to check....

pandavark · 26/04/2009 10:51

dig, lazarus, dig!

noddyholder · 25/04/2009 21:09

I love it Nick cave!