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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10966 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

timotheusTimothy

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
653 times in 227 works
Consistency
99.0% (653 of 659)
Reach if approved
~695 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
661 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (653 changes in 227 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 653)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … names in Hebrew: the Greekes in Greeke, as Timothie: There was a disciple named TimotheusTimothy, his mother was a Iewesse, but his father a Grecian: which last words seeme …
    With rule
    … names in Hebrew: the Greekes in Greeke, as Timothie: There was a disciple named TimotheusTimothy, his mother was a Iewesse, but his father a Grecian: which last words seeme …

    Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … like by Tichicus: Pareus: for the inscription of the epistle is in Paul, Siluanus, & TimotheusTimothy name: it is not like, that he would send TimotheusTimothy salutation, he beeing the …
    With rule
    … like by Tichicus: Pareus: for the inscription of the epistle is in Paul, Siluanus, & TimotheusTimothy name: it is not like, that he would send TimotheusTimothy salutation, he beeing the …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Romans · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … there, ſeeing Paul taught theire the ſpace of three yeares: who gave commaundement to TimotheusTimothy touching this matter ſo diligently and exactly. The obſervation therof was famous in the …
    With rule
    … there, ſeeing Paul taught theire the ſpace of three yeares: who gave commaundement to TimotheusTimothy touching this matter ſo diligently and exactly. The obſervation therof was famous in the …

    Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … he knew their eſtate: I truſt in the Lord Jeſus, ſaith he, to ſend TimotheusTimothy ſhortly unto you, that I alſo may be of good comfort when I know …
    With rule
    … he knew their eſtate: I truſt in the Lord Jeſus, ſaith he, to ſend TimotheusTimothy ſhortly unto you, that I alſo may be of good comfort when I know …

    William Fenner · The Souls Looking Glass 2 · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of Reputation. It was an excellent exhortation of Paul, & implied no smal difficulty to TimotheusTimothy; Cause thy Ministrie to be throughly liked of: adorne it with a pure and …
    With rule
    … of Reputation. It was an excellent exhortation of Paul, & implied no smal difficulty to TimotheusTimothy; Cause thy Ministrie to be throughly liked of: adorne it with a pure and …

    Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … tongue of the Caldeans. The Grecians did vſe the ſame, for ſome were called TimotheusTimothy, that is to ſaye, an honorour of God: ſome Philotheus which is a louer …
    With rule
    … tongue of the Caldeans. The Grecians did vſe the ſame, for ſome were called TimotheusTimothy, that is to ſaye, an honorour of God: ſome Philotheus which is a louer …

    Petrus Ramus · The Logic Newly Translated · p. 51 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    A. He circumciſed TimotheusTimothy a Grecian.
    With rule
    A. He circumciſed TimotheusTimothy a Grecian.

    Eusebius Pagit · The History of the Bible · p. 256 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … written to the Theſſalonians, to witte, the ſalutation that the Apoſtle, with Siluanus and TimotheusTimothy directs to them. We entered in the ſecond part, which continewes the congratulation, wherein …
    With rule
    … written to the Theſſalonians, to witte, the ſalutation that the Apoſtle, with Siluanus and TimotheusTimothy directs to them. We entered in the ſecond part, which continewes the congratulation, wherein …

    Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 14 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Golden Chain A09339

  • Printed
    TImotheusTimothy.
    With rule
    TImotheusTimothy.

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 617 · Open in the reader