Akiva (given name)

Akiva or Akiba is a Jewish-ethnic name, arising in Aramaic from Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב, and thus cognate to English Jacob.

Among Jews, "Ya'akov" and "Akiva" - though essentially variants of the same name - are treated as completely separate, arousing different historical and religious associations: the one recalls the Biblical Patriarch Jacob, the other relates to the Roman period Rabbi Akiva.

Akiva

Akiba

Fictional characters

  • Akiva Shtisel, main character in the television series Shtisel
  • Akiva, a seraph and main character on the American fantasy novel Daughter of Smoke and Bone
  • Akiva, a fictional Jewish partisan in the novel Wrath Becomes Her
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.