Beulah
See also: beulah
English
Etymology
A biblical name applied to the land of Israel, from Biblical Hebrew בְּעוּלָה (bəʿûlâ, “married (woman)”), taken up as a given name by Puritans.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbjuːlə/
- Rhymes: -uːlə
Proper noun
Beulah
- A female given name from Hebrew.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Isaiah 62:4:
- Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
- 2003, Rita Dove; Earl G. Ingersoll, Conversations with Rita Dove, Univ. of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 43:
- I was into names then for some reason, and hit upon the name Beulah. When I was a child it was a name like Bertha, and you made a joke about Beulah, Big Beulah. I thought, wouldn't it be nice to use the name Beulah and try to get it in a poem.
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- A village, the county seat of Benzie County, Michigan.
- A town in Mississippi.
- A city in North Dakota.
- A census-designated place in Wyoming.
- A village in Ceredigion, Wales.
- A village in Powys, Wales.