Yes. Elizabeth is the mother of John the Baptist, and Luke tells her story in the first chapter of his Gospel. Her name is the Greek form of the Hebrew Elisheba, “my God is an oath,” which the Old Testament gives to the wife of Aaron (Exodus 6:23). What does Elizabeth mean in Hebrew? Elisheba (אֱלִישֶׁבַע) joins el, “God,” to a word for an oath, and name references translate it “my God is an oath.” The Hebrew lexicon of Brown,…

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