Historical personal name
Lazar
Related to Loʿozar/Lazarus, a documented personal name; the exact short form Lazar and literal meaning are not independently verified here.
- Language layer
- Personal name in Syriac tradition; catalogue short form requires separate evidence
- Written spelling
- Not independently checked
- Personal-name evidence
- Loʿozar bar Sobtho, a bishop of Baghdad and writer in the early ninth century.
- Pronunciation & audio
- See the recording collection below; only approved, permissioned audio is shown.
- Popularity / modern gender
- Not established by these sources.
- Source check
- · reference review, not specialist speaker certification
Meaning, use and context
Loʿozar bar Sobtho is a documented bishop and writer, identified with Lazarus in Lucas Van Rompay's account. His name appears in the history of Syriac theology and worship, giving the catalogue a personal bearer beyond a reference to a biblical character.
His writings included an anaphora and discussions of providence and free will, some known only through quotations in Bar ʿEbroyo. He also took an episcopal name, Philoxenos; a further identification with Basil is treated as conditional. Different names in a biography need not represent different people.
The catalogue's shorter Lazar spelling is not the exact form printed in this source. The inherited 'God has helped' translation and modern short-form usage require independent checks. The present evidence does not certify dialect pronunciation, current popularity or every later attribution to Lazarus.
Evidence for this entry
- Lucas Van Rompay — Loʿozar bar Sobtho, GEDSH ↗
Loʿozar/Lazarus identification, named historical bishop, transmitted works and conditional alternate identification; not exact Lazar short form or etymology.
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