The story
- Biblical Hebrew · borrowed fromבְּעוּלָה“married (woman)”
- English todayBeulah
A biblical name applied to the land of Israel in Isaiah 62:4, from Biblical Hebrew בְּעוּלָה (bəʿûlâ, “married (woman)”), taken up as a given name by Puritans and used figuratively for the New Earth.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.