Hannah vs Ben - What's the difference?
hannah | ben |
Mother of the prophet Samuel in the Old Testament.
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* 1959 , Goodbye, Columbus, and Five Short Stories , Houghton Mifflin 1959, page 116
* 2002 (Kate Atkinson), Not the End of the World , Doubleday, ISBN 0385604726, page 33:
(Scotland, northern England) In, into.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 32:
Inner, interior.
(Scotland, Northern England) Ben-room: The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but).
A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben.
The winged seed of the ben tree.
The oil of the ben seed.
(usually, capitalised) Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames).
As a proper noun hannah
is mother of the prophet samuel in the old testament.As an adverb ben is
well.hannah
English
Proper noun
(s)- Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah , why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am I not better to thee than ten sons?
- "What about Hannah Schreiber?"
- He smiled, flashing some gold in his mouth. "How do you like that name? She was only a girl, but she had an old lady's name. - - -
- She could buy pretty clothes for a girl and plait her hair with ribbons. And she could call her a nice, old-fashioned, middle-class name like Sarah or Emma or Hannah .
ben
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ben, bene, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) ben, bene, variation of bin, .Preposition
(English prepositions)- And he was waving to me to creep in, so I just did and then just to skip ben the front and then in the lobby.