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    Emeline

    EM-uh-leen

    Meaning

    Industrious; Striving

    Germanic/French origin · Girl

    What it points to

    Emeline does not faint — girded with strength, reaping in due season, the industrious soul who never wearies of good.

    Verses · King James Version

    “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”

    Galatians 6:9

    “She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.”

    Proverbs 31:17

    Most used in the 1880s (US records)

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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