Elizabeth—Isabel

The Greek word [Greek: Elisabet] (Luke, i. 5. &c.) from which Elizabeth, or *Elisabeth*, must have been adopted as a Christian name, is used by the LXX. (Exodus, vi. 23.) to express the Hebrew [Hebrew: Elisheba], the name of Aaron's wife. This at once directs us to the verb [Hebrew: shaba], or rather to its Niphal, [Hebrew: nishba], for the *Kal* form does not occur, *to swear*; for the combination of letters in [Hebrew: el isshaba], *God will swear*, or *God sweareth*, is the same as that in the proper name. Now let us transpose the verb and its nominative case, and we have [Hebrew: ishaba el…