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Ximena is a Spanish feminine name based on the masculine Ximeno, with Jimena as a related spelling. One celebrated historical bearer was Jimena Díaz, the wife of the medieval Castilian figure known as El Cid. In contemporary Spanish the name is generally pronounced hee-MEH-nah, with the first sound represented by /x/ in phonetics. The route beyond Ximeno is more contested, so turning it into a tidy Biblical translation would go beyond the verified evidence.
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