Zillah

See also: zillah

English

Etymology

From Hebrew צִלָּה‎ (“shade”).

Proper noun

Zillah

A female given name.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 4:19:
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  And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
- 1845 October – 1846 June, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: A Novel, volume XXVIII, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher, […], published December 1847, OCLC 156123328:
  
  ON the fifth morning, or rather afternoon, a different step approached - lighter and shorter; and, this time, the person entered the room. It was Zillah; donned in her scarlet shawl, with a black silk bonnet on her head, and a willow-basket swung to her arm.

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