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In that time, middle names were not common. Sometimes they may use ben or beni or bat (pronounced as a hard th) to indicate they were a son of or daughter of the person whose name follows much like we use a surname (which was also not common in Israel)...Simon bar-Jona meant Simon son of Jonah, Moschiach ben-David means Messiah son of David...Yit sem Leoo means Yit son of Lau...John O'Reilly meant John of the Reilly clan...etc

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