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Meaning and etymology of the name Hodesh
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Hodesh 
The name Hodesh occurs just once in the Bible. She is one of three wives of Shamaraim, a man from Benjamin, who first married and divorced Hushim and Baara, and then moved to Moab and married Hodesh. She bore him Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam, Jeuz, Sachia and Mirmah (1 Chronicles 8:8-10).
The name Hodesh comes from the root  (hadash), meaning to renew or repair. This verb covers situations in which an old situation is replaced by a better new one: ancient ruins will be rebuilt (Isaiah 61:4); Saul gathered the people at Gilgal to renew the kingdom (1 Samuel 11:14); and king David famously requested a renewed spirit from God (Psalm 51:10).
The derived adjective (hadash) means new and may denote either something renewed or something completely new, like a song (Psalm 33:3), something God has in store for us (Isaiah 43:19), or His compassions that never come to an end (Lamentations 3:23). The masculine noun (hadash) literally means newness but in the Bible it either denotes the new moon (1 Samuel 20:5) or the month as unit of time (Genesis 38:24).
The name Hodesh literally means Newness or New Thing (or New One), but is possibly part of a cluster of names that reflect the peoples' tendency to succumb to moon worship. Other examples of (possible) moon-names are Baara, Jerah, Jericho, and Laban.
For a meaning of the name Hodesh, both NOBS Study Bible Name List and Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names read New Moon.
Related names are Hadasha and Tahtim-hodshi
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