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- No one named Chelsea appears in the Bible, and the name has no Hebrew or Greek origin.
- Chelsea is a district of London, recorded as Celchyth in 789, from Old English cealc, “chalk, limestone,” and hȳth, “landing place.”
- The Bible’s word for chalk, Hebrew gir, occurs once, in Isaiah 27:9; its Aramaic form is the “plaster” of the wall in Daniel 5:5.
- Chelsea entered the list of the top 1,000 American girls’ names in 1969 and peaked at 15th in 1992; Chelsey and Chelsie are variant spellings.
- Ten synods of the English Church met at Chelsea between 785 and 816.
- Nominis suggests Saint Thomas More, who lived at Chelsea, and Blessed John Larke, its rector, as patrons for people named Chelsea.
Bibliografía (Haga clic para mostrar)
- Behind the Name, “Chelsea,” “Chelsey” and “Chelsie,” with United States popularity figures from Social Security Administration data. https://www.behindthename.com/name/chelsea
- “The parish of Chelsea: Introduction” and “Settlement and building: Chelsea up to 1680,” in A History of the County of Middlesex, vol. 12, Chelsea, ed. Patricia E. C. Croot (Victoria County History, 2004), citing The Place-Names of Middlesex (English Place-Name Society), pp. 85–86. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol12/pp1-2
- “Chelsea” and “chalk,” Online Etymology Dictionary. https://www.etymonline.com/word/Chelsea
- “Chelsea (given name)” and “Synod of Chelsea,” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_(given_name)
- Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong’s Hebrew 1615 (gir) and 1528 (gira), Bible Hub. https://biblehub.com/hebrew/1615.htm
- Nominis, Église catholique en France, “Chelsea.” https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/prenom/6219/Chelsea.html
- “Thomas More” and “Chelsea Old Church,” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More
- John Wainewright, “Bl. John Larke,” la Enciclopedia Católica, vol. 8 (New York: Robert Appleton, 1910). https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08466b.htm
- Scripture quotations: Isaiah 27:9, English Standard Version; Isaiah 27:9, New International Version (“limestone”). References: Daniel 5:1, 5, 25.
