{"id":18883,"date":"2024-12-16T06:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T06:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=18883"},"modified":"2026-09-19T22:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:04:20","slug":"hilary-name-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/hilary-name-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary kommt in der Bibel nicht vor \u2013 aber das Wort schon, in 2. Korinther 9,7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Hilary is not in the Bible. But the Latin word behind it turns up in Greek in one of Paul&#039;s best-known sentences, and most readers have never noticed. What the name means Hilary comes from the Latin hilaris \u2014 cheerful, glad. The same root gives us hilarious, though the English word has travelled a long way from the Latin sense, which was closer to good-humoured than to funny. It was a man&#039;s name for most of its history and shifted\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? 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