Talitha (given name)
Talitha (Aramaic טליתא talitha "young girl") is an uncommon feminine name given in reference to the Biblical story in the Gospel of Mark in which Jesus Christ was said to have resurrected a dead child with the words "Talitha cumi" or "Talitha kum" or "Talitha koum," (Mark 5:41: Greek ταλιθὰ κούμ) often translated as "Little girl, I say to you, arise! " == Etymology == The word טליתא (talitha) has come to mean "young girl" in Aramaic, but its original meaning is likely "young lamb", a meaning preserved in Hebrew טַלְיָה (talya) "female lamb" (which gave the given name Talia), in the same way that the English word "kid" originally meant "young goat" and evolved into "young person" or "child". Like the word "kid" in English, depending on the context the word talitha could be used in Aramaic for young people of a wide variety of ages: the New Testament story applies to a "little child" (Greek: παιδίον in Mark 5:41), but various translations of the Old Testament (Peshitta, Pseudo Jonathan, Neofiti) also apply it to a girl of marriageable age: (Genesis 34:4) "Get me this damsel [=טליתא talitha] to wife." Some sources say the Aramaic word could be translated as little lamb, while others say the word refers to a young girl.