Looked this up among my favorite other sites and found: laz'-a-rus (Lazaros, an abridged form of the Hebrew name Eleazar, with a Greek termination): Means "God has helped." In Septuagint and Josephus are found the forms Eleazar, and Eleazaros. The name was common among the Jews, and is given to two men in the New Testament who have nothing to do with each other.
http://www.bible-history.com/isbe/L/LAZARUS/ So your problem seems to be that Lazarus is not a Hebrew name. People are trying to move a Greek name to Hebrew by sound using English phonics convention - one of my sounds is the same as one of your sounds. Also it was interesting that Eleazar means God has HELPED - already done. We will see if any of the other have differing opinions. Dee
