Eloise staat niet in de Bijbel — en het betekent niet “zon”

Eloise is not in the Bible. It is Germanic rather than Hebrew, and it does not mean “sun” — which is the most common thing said about this name, and it is not true. Eloise comes from Helewidis: heil, healthy or whole, joined to wit, wide. Whole, and widely so. And that, dear friends, is a better inheritance than the borrowed Greek one would have been — because wholeness is a word Scripture will not stop using. What does the…