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Béla (male)

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Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Private correspondent [Pv]
Notes:

1. Hungarian, of uncertain origin; possibly from the surname Bél.

2. Biblical Hebrew; 1 Chronicles 8, 3.  The meaning may be derived from "destruction" or "swallow (up)". [from a private correspondent, Pv]
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