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Boaz

Meaning

Means "swiftness" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of the man who marries Ruth.

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Famous People Named Boaz

Boaz Sharon

Boaz Sharon (born October 27, 1949) is a pianist, recording artist and professor of piano at Boston University as well as Director of Piano Studies at Boston University Tanglewood Institute.

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Boaz Evron

Boaz Evron (, June 6, 1927 - September 15, 2018), alternatively transliterated Boas EvronNorman Finkelstein transcribes Evron's name as such in was a left-wing Israeli journalist and critic.

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Boaz Young

Boaz Yungvits (Youngwitz), aka Bernard Young (born 1870 in Novidvor, Poland) was a Polish actor.

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Boaz Huss

Boaz Huss (born 1959) is a professor of Kabbalah at the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

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Boaz Mahune

Boaz Mahune (died 1847) was a 19th-century politician and civil servant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

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Boaz in Other Languages

Biblical GreekBoos
Biblical HebrewBoaz
Biblical LatinBooz
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