Crossword clues for jemima
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. personal name, biblical daughter of Job, from Hebrew Yemimah, literally "dove" (compare Arabic yamama). The Aunt Jemima ready-mix food product in U.S. dates from 1889.
Wikipedia
Jemima (also written Jemimah, , ) was the oldest of the three beautiful daughters of Job, named in the Bible as given to him in the later part of his life, after God made Job prosperous again. Jemimah's younger sisters are named as Keziah and Keren-Happuch. Job's sons, in contrast, are not named
Jemima, along with her sisters, was described as more beautiful than all the other women in the land. Also, unusually and in common with her sisters, Jemima was granted an inheritance by her father, with her brothers as might have been expected. Apart from these brief references at the end of the Book of Job, Jemima is not mentioned elsewhere in the Bible.
The name Jemima in Hebrew literally means "warm", i.e. affectionate and hence it is taken to mean dove, which in Hebrew is also derived from the word for warmth.
In Job 42:14 ( ESV):
"And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch"Jemima is a feminine given name which may refer to :
People:
- Jemima a person that goes to a school
- Jemima Abey, British actress
- Jemima Blackburn (1823-1909), Scottish painter
- Jemima Boone, daughter of Daniel Boone captured by Indians in 1776 - see Capture and rescue of Jemima Boone
- Jemima Goldsmith (born 1974), English journalist, editor, heiress and activist
- Jemima Kirke (born 1985), actress
- Jemima Nicholas (1755-1832), Welsh woman who captured 12 drunk French soldiers in the Battle of Fishguard, the "last invasion of Britain"
- Jemima Parry-Jones (born 1949), British authority on birds of prey, conservationist and author
- Jemima Rooper (born 1981), English actress
- Jemima Sumgong (born 1984), Kenyan long-distance runner
- Jemima von Tautphoeus (1807-1893), Irish novelist
- Jemima West (born 1987), Anglo-French actress
- Jemima Wilkinson (1752-1819), American preacher and evangelist
- Jemima Yorke, 2nd Marchioness Grey (1723-1797)
Biblical and fictional characters:
- Jemima (Bible), daughter of Job
- an advertising character for a food brand Aunt Jemima
- Jemima (cat), a character in the musical Cats
- Jemima Potts, the daughter in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Jemima Shore, an investigative journalist in a series of crime novels by Antonia Fraser
- Jemima, a duck in the children's book The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter
- Jemima, a doll in the various versions of the television show Play School
Jemima is a principal character in the musical play Cats, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber using the poetry of T. S. Eliot. She is the youngest member of the tribe of Cats, being the first one in her whole tribe to accept Grizabella by singing with her a small part in the song 'Memory'.
Usage examples of "jemima".
Jemima, who had no cousins or close relations of any sort, would make do with Randall Birley for a cousin if she were able to choose one.
It was only at this point that Jemima recognised the voice of Randall Birley, since he had never bothered to announce his identity.
Jemima had not figured Randall Birley as at all political, unlike Millie Swain, but perhaps he had been persuaded by Millie to do a commercial for the Labour-Liberal coalition.
It was Jemima Shore, not Charley Baines, who was the unwilling witness to the subsequent colloquy between Randall Birley and Millie Swain.
Where Randall Birley and Millie Swain were concerned, Jemima was still at this point unaware that they had not arrived together.
Yes, Jemima knew where Randall Birley was: at the Irving Theatre, at least he would be there until 10.
He stupidly buried Iffy over Jemima, but he only dug down about three feet.
After all no one at Megalith, not Jemima Shore and certainly not Cy Fredericks, wanted to be confronted by the sight of Franklyn Faber, emerging from obscurity alive and well, and flanked by libel lawyers.
Larry instead of going after Jemima, like every midlife hormone he had was urging.
Afterwards I remembered that he was the tinsmith, and Jemima stayed to chat with him for a few minutes, but Rubens and I strolled on.
I waved mine, and then Jemima, having parted with the tinsmith, came up, and we went home.
Jemima, and she married to Jim Espin the tinsmith this six months past.
She knew now, as well as words could have told her, that not only had the old feeling of love passed away from Jemima, but that it had gone unregretted, and no attempt had been made to recall it.
When the mainspring of her life her love for Burgo Smyth had been broken, for reasons which were still obscure to Jemima, Imogen Swain had somehow ceased to exist.
Jemima wondered whether Lady Imogen had also talked to her doctor about one not-so-strange man from the past: Burgo Smyth.