Elisabet

Elisabet is the Scandinavian and Catalan form of Elizabeth, derived from the Hebrew name Elisheba, meaning my God is an oath or my God is abundance. The name appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Aaron, and gained widespread use across Christian Europe through Saint Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist in the New Testament. Elisabet is the standard Swedish and Icelandic spelling, closely related to the German Elisabeth, the English Elizabeth, and the Spanish Isabel, all sharing the same ancient Semitic root.