Gedaliah (name)
Gedaliah (גדליה) is a Hebrew given name given to several men in history. It means "made great by God."
People with the name
[edit]Biblical figures
[edit]- Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam
- Fast of Gedaliah, an annual Jewish day of fasting, the third day of Tishrei
- Gedaliah, son of Pashhur, one of the nobles who conspired against Jeremiah (Jeremiah 38:1)
Others with the name
[edit]- Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph (c.1515 – c.1587), a 16th-century Italian talmudist
- Gedaliah Bublick (1875–1948), a Yiddish writer and Zionist leader
- Gedalia Schorr (1910–1979), a Polish-American rabbi who was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Torah Vodaath
- Gedalia Dov Schwartz (born 1925), head of the Chicago Rabbinical Council
- Geoff Schwartz (born 1986), American football player whose birth name was Gedalia Yitzhak Schwartz
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