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    Horatio

    hoh-RAY-shee-oh

    Meaning

    Timekeeper; Man of the hour

    Latin origin · Boy

    What it points to

    Horatio trusts God's timing — everything beautiful in its time, seasons in the Father's power, the man of the hour who waits upon divine appointment.

    Verses · King James Version

    “He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”

    Ecclesiastes 3:11

    “And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.”

    Acts 1:7

    Most used in the 1880s (US records)

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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