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Considering this, what does Ichabod mean?
Meaning & History Means "no glory" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament he is the grandson of Eli and the son of Phinehas. This name was also used by Washington Irving for Ichabod Crane, the main character in his short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820).
Likewise, people ask, is Ichabod a real name?
????????, ikhabod – no glory, inglorious or where is the glory?) is mentioned in the first Book of Samuel as the son of Phinehas, a malicious priest at the biblical shrine of Shiloh, who was born on the day that the Israelites' Ark of God was taken into Philistine captivity.
Eli was very old at this time and when he heard of his sons' death and the Ark being taken, he fell over and broke his neck and died. She names him Ichabod which means “Where is the glory?” and laments at the glory being gone from Israel because the Ark is gone.