Definition of "Jemima"
Jemima
proper noun
A female given name from Hebrew.
Quotations
He had also seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Job 42:13-15
-- and at last Jemima was fixed upon, because it would do either for a Scripture name or for a heroine out of a book.""I did not know Jemima was a Scripture name," said Ruth."Oh yes, it is. One of Job's daughters; Jemima, Kezia, and Keren-Happuch. There are a good many Jemimas in the world, and some Kezias, but I never heard of a Keren-Happuch; and yet we know just as much of one as of another. People really like a pretty name, whether Scripture or out of it."
1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter XVII, in Ruth