The Foreign Companies That Are Buying Up America. Over the last several years, foreign companies have quietly been acquiring a piece of Americana. Most Americans donât realize that when they go to see Monsters University this weekend, if they do it at an AMC theater chain, they are doing so in a theater owned by the Chinese.
Ebenezer /ebe-nez-er/ [4 sylls.] as a boys' name is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Ebenezer is stone of help.Biblical: name of a memorial stone set up by the prophet Samuel to mark a critical battle and victory in Jewish history. First used as a given name by the Puritans in the 17th century.Literary: Ebenezer Scrooge is a character in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.elow is a charted analysis of the usage of the boy name Ebenezer and corresponding names. The only popular alternative form of Ebenezer (outside Top 1000) appearing in the Top 1000 is Eben. Adoption of this boy name was at its apex during the years 1880-1889 (usage of 0.287%) and is now much less.
Ebenezer is the name of a biblical place --the stone set up by Samuel to mark his victory over the Philistines--rather than a person.It was adopted by the British Puritans as a first name and then exported to America, where it had some early popularity, even entering the Top 1000 in the 1880s.ben-Ezer, biblical location (its meaning [stone of help] made clear in I Samuel 7:12: Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.).