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amother
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 Mon, Dec 27 2021, 12:15 pm
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I had a great grandmother, Sophie . Only spoke Yiddish, not very religious Jews, so no one is sure what her Hebrew name was or if she even had one.in addition, anyone who might remember is deceased . I think the name Sophie is just adorable but wonder what the Hebrew equivalent would be.
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Chayalle
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Mon, Dec 27 2021, 12:16 pm
Tzofia
I think it's a beautiful name, though I only personally know Sephardic Sophias.
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amother
Feverfew
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Mon, Dec 27 2021, 12:18 pm
I happen to be sephardi but my good friend is named Sophie/Sophia after an aunt who was killed in the Holocaust.
I found it interesting that she spells it with a samech ס rather than the צ I've commonly seen.
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amother
Clover
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Mon, Dec 27 2021, 12:22 pm
In Hebrew the name is צופיה, spelled Tzophia or Tzophie in English.
I wanted to spell it the regular American way as Sophia but used that only as her English name and her Hebrew name is Tzipora.
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elisheva25
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Mon, Dec 27 2021, 12:25 pm
My grandmother was Sophia or Sofiya , I named my baby Tzofiya, we call her Tzofie or Sofi.
On the birth certificate I wrote Sophia
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amother
White
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Mon, Dec 27 2021, 11:04 pm
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You can spell Sophia or Sophie in English and צופיה in Hebrew. Not a contradiction. I know both Sophias and Sophies who are צופיה in Hebrew. Never saw it spelled with a Tz in English
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amother
White
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Mon, Dec 27 2021, 11:10 pm
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Think of the pasuk from eishes chayil צופיה הליכות ביתה - gorgeous!
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amother
Ginger
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Mon, Dec 27 2021, 11:15 pm
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I have a daughter with English name Sophie and her Hebrew name is just another ‘s’ name.
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amother
White
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Mon, Dec 27 2021, 11:18 pm
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But for someone who doesn't want a different English/Hebrew name, צופיה is equivalent to Sophia
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amother
Scarlet
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Mon, Dec 27 2021, 11:21 pm
| amother [ OP ] wrote: | | I had a great grandmother, Sophie . Only spoke Yiddish, not very religious Jews, so no one is sure what her Hebrew name was or if she even had one.in addition, anyone who might remember is deceased . I think the name Sophie is just adorable but wonder what the Hebrew equivalent would be. |
There's no hebrew equivalent. (Unless you translate it, which I looked up - translated to Wisdom "chochma")
Tzofiya sounds like Sophia, that's the only connection the names have.
Her name could have been Sarah or Shoshana or something with an S, or it could have been some random yiddish name like Kreindel or Shprintza or Genesha, and being that she was not religious, she went by Sophie.
I think Sophie is super cute for an English name, too!
Good luck with the Jewish name, whatever you choose.
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amother
White
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Mon, Dec 27 2021, 11:28 pm
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Speaking of sephardim, the letter צ-tzadi is not pronounced by them as a real TZ sound, but a more in between sound, closer to an S. So צופיה could be spelled Sophia/Sofia in English.
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amother
Puce
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Mon, Dec 27 2021, 11:38 pm
If she was german/yiddish speaking, it may have been soshie
That's my daughter's name❤
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amother
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Tue, Dec 28 2021, 4:17 am
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