The story
- Biblical Hebrew · derived fromאִיכָבוֹד
- English todayIchabod
From Biblical Hebrew אִיכָבוֹד (ʾīḵāḇōḏ, literally “no honor”), from אִי (ʾī, “not”) + כָּבוֹד (kāḇōḏ, “honor”); alluding to 1 Samuel 4:21, where Eli’s daughter-in-law names her child Ichabod, saying ‘The glory is departed from Israel.’
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.