Avimelekh

Avimelekh (Russian: Авимеле́х) is a Russian male first name.^[1] It was included into various, often handwritten, church calendars throughout the 17th–19th centuries, but was omitted from the official Synodal Menologium at the end of the 19th century.^[2] It is derived from the Biblical Hebrew Abimelech (lit. my father—a king).^[1]

References

Notes

1. Superanskaya, p. 32
2. Superanskaya, pp. 23 and 32

Sources

• А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Словарь русских имён" (Dictionary of Russian Names). Издательство Эксмо. Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-699-14090-5