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Platinum Supermommy
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: USA
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GIDEON
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, English, Jewish
Other Scripts: גִדְעוֹן (Hebrew)
Pronounced: GID-ee-ən (English)
Means "feller" or "hewer" in Hebrew. Gideon was a hero of the Old Testament who led the Israelites against the Midianites. In the English-speaking world, Gideon has been used as a given name since the Protestant Reformation, and it was popular among the Puritans.
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