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Baruch (Hebrew: בָּרוּךְ, Standard Baruḫ Tiberian Bārûḵ ; "Blessed") has been a given name among Jews from Biblical times up to the present, on some occasions also used as surname. It is also found, though more rarely, among Christians - particularly among Protestants who use Old Testament names.
Except for its use as a name, this is also related to "berakhah" or bracha (Hebrew: ברכה; plural ברכות, berakhot), which is a Jewish blessing. See also: Baraka and Barakah.
The root B-R-K meaning "blessing" is also present in other Semitic languages. The most common Arabic form is the passive form Mubarak, but the form Barack is also used.
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People with the given name Baruch
Bible
- Baruch ben Neriah, aide to the prophet Jeremiah
- Baruch, son of Zabbai; one of Nehemiah's helpers in repairing the walls of Jerusalem
- Baruch, son of Col-Hozeh; a member of the Tribe of Judah who settled in Jerusalem
Later times
- Baruch Spinoza, Dutch rationalist philosopher
- Baruch Blumberg, American Nobel-prize winning physician, developed Hepatitis B vaccine
- Baruch Goldstein, American-Israeli settler physician who murdered 29 Muslim worshipers in 1994
Fictional Characters
- The Baruch of Baghdad, the king of the Saracens in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
- Baruch (His Dark Materials), a fictional angel in the His Dark Materials series
People with the surname Baruch
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- Bernard Baruch, American financier, stock market speculator, statesman, and presidential adviser.
Scriptures attributed to Baruch ben Neriah
- Book of Baruch or 1 Baruch, a deuterocanonical book, considered by Jews and most Protestants to be apocryphal
- 2 Baruch, also called the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
- 3 Baruch, also called the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch
- 4 Baruch, also known as the Paraleipomena of Jeremiah
Other uses of "Baruch"
- Baruch College, part of the City University of New York
- Baruch Plan, a proposed U.S. atomic energy plan following WWII
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