Bible Name Meanings
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Your New Baby

Abel: Breath. (Able was the second son of Adam and Eve.)

Abigail: A father’s joy/Source of joy

Abiel: God is my Father

Ada: Prosperous/Happy, or Ornament

Adam: A man of the red earth. (Adam was the first man that God created.)

Adina: Slender/Delicate

Amos: Burden/Burden bearer

Andrew: Manly/Courageous. (Andrew was the brother of the apostle, Simon Peter.)

Anna: Grace/Graceful

Ariel: Lion of God

Asher: Happy/Lucky

Name Meanings Beginning With "B"

Barnabas: Son of consolation

Benjamin: Son of the right hand. (Benjamin was the youngest son of Jacob.)

Bernice: Victorious

Bethany: House of unripe figs

Bethesda: House of mercy

Blossom: As a rose

Boaz: Strength/Swiftness. Boaz was the husband of Ruth (an ancestor of Jesus)

Name Meanings Beginning With "C"

Caleb: Devoted and wholehearted

Carmel: Garden/Orchard, or Field

Claudia: She was a disciple in Rome

Cornelius: Strong/Sunrays. (In the New Testament Cornelius was a Roman centurion)

Name Meanings Beginning With "D"

Damaris: An Athenian woman who was converted by Paul

Darius: Possessing the good. (Darius was a great ruler of Persia (now Iran) about 500 B.C.

Daniel: God is my judge. (Daniel was a prophet who lived in Old Testament times and interpreted the sign of the moving finger.)

David: Beloved/The adored one. (David was a great Israelite king, who won many battles and wrote many of the psalms.)

Deborah: The bee/An industrious woman. (Deborah was an Old Testament prophetess who led the Israelites.)

Debra: Like Deborah

Dinah: Judgement

Delilah: Beautiful temptress/Delicate, (Delilah was the lover of Samson. She tricked him into cutting his hair and thus losing his strength.)

Drusilla: (The wife of Felix, the governor of Judea.

Name Meanings Beginning With "E"

Eli: God is high. Eli was an Old Testament prophet. (Eli also means ‘My God’ Jesus’ cry from the cross.

Elijah: Jehovah is God. (Eli was an Old Testament prophet.)

Elisabeth: Consecrated to God

Elisha: God is my help/My God is salvation

Emanuel: God is with us

Emma: All embracing/Wide reaching/Completely

Enoch: Dedicated teacher. (Enoch was a son of Cain)

Esther: A star, (Queen Esther was the Jewish queen of Xerxes the king of Persia, and by her faith God used her to save the Jewish people from annihilation.)

Ephraim: Doubly fruitful, (In the Old Testament Ephraim was the younger son of Joseph)

Ethan: One noted for wisdom/Constant/Firm/Strong

Eve: Life giving/Life, (God made Eve from Adam’s rib and she became the wife of the first man.)

Ezekiel: God strengthens

Ezra: The helper, (An Old Testament priest, who led the Israelis back to Zion

Name Meanings Beginning With "G"

Gabriel: Man of God/God is my strength

Gabrielle: Woman of God/God is my strength

Gideon: The mighty warrior/cutter of trees, (Gideon was called by an angel.)

Name Meanings Beginning With "H"

Hanna: Favored by God/Graciousness/Graceful

Hannah: As Hanna (above)

Hagar: Flight/God has heard, (Hagar was a servant in Abram’s (Abraham’s) household

Hazael: God has seen/Sees the Lord

Hazel: God has seen/Sees the Lord

Hiram: Exalted/High born, (Hiram was the King of Tyre who helped the Jewish kings, David and Solomon

Hosanna: Please save now/A prayer of praise

Hoshea: Salvation, (Hoshea was the original name for Joshua)

Name Meanings Beginning With "I"

Immanuel: God is with us

Isaac: Laughter/The laughing one, (Isaac was a son of Abraham and the father of Jacob, (All were ancestors of Jesus.)

Isaiah: God is salvation, (Isaiah was a great Old Testament prophet and many of his prophecy’s were about Jesus Christ.)

Name meaning Beginning With "J"

Jabal: Flowing/Flowing River

Jacob: Held by the heel, God changed Jacob’s name to Israel, and made him father of the Jewish Nation, who are still called Israelis.)

James: Heel catcher, (Greek form of Jacob.)

Jemima: A dove

Jeremiah: God will establish/Yahweh will exalt

Jeremy: Means the same as Jeremiah (above)

Jephthah: He will open

Jerubbaal: Contends with Baal, (the name given to Gideon for destroying Baal’s alter.)

Jesse: God’s gift/God exists, (Jesse was the father of king David.)

Joanna: God has been gracious, (with others she heralded Christ’s resurrection.)

Job: He that weeps, or cries.

Joel: Jehovah is God, (Joel was one of king David’s mighty men.)

Jonah: A man of peace/A dove.

Jonathan: God has given, (Jonathan was the eldest son of king Saul, and a good friend of king David.)

Joseph: God shall add, (Joseph was the earthly father of Jesus Christ, and the husband of Mary, Jesus’ mother.)

Joshua: God is salvation, (God’s man to take over from Moses and lead the Israelites to the Promised Land.)

Jude: Praise

Judith: Jewess/A woman from Judea, Judith also means Praise.

Julia: A family name of the Roman Caesars, it is the feminine form of Julius.

Name Meanings Beginning With "L"

Lazarus: God has helped (Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead!)

Levi: United, (Levi was the name given to Old testament priests.)

Leah: Light of the sun

Lucia: Light

Luke: Bright/Light/White, (Luke is another name for Lucia, or Lucas.)

Lois: Agreeable, (She was Timothy’s grandmother.)

Lydia: Of Lydia, (she was converted by Saint Paul.)

Name Meanings Beginning With "M"

Magdala: Seaside village/Tower

Magdalene: Tower, (Magdalene was one of the Mary’s at the time of Jesus.)

Malachi: My angel/My messenger

Marcus: Defence/warlike

Mark: An object/Large hammer, (it relates to the planet, Mars.)

Martha: A lady, (Martha was the sister of Mary and Lazarus, the man raised from the dead by Jesus.)

Mary: Obstinate/Stubborn, (There are several Mary’s in the Bible, the best know was the mother of Jesus.)

Matthew: A gift from God, (Matthew was an apostle of Jesus.)

Micah: Who is like Yahweh, (Micah was one of the prophets who warned the Jews of the judgment of Israel.)

Michal: A brook

Michael: Like the lord, (Michael was an archangel.)

Miriam: Obstinate/Stubborn/Bitter, (Miriam was the elder sister of Moses and Aaron.)

Myra: Myrrh, (Myrrh was one of the gifts from the three wise men to Jesus, It is also the name of a city in Lycia.)

Name Meanings Beginning With "N"

Naomi: My delight/pleasant

Nathan: The gift of God

Nehemiah: Comfort of God

Nebuchadezzar: (Was the king of Babylon, who took the Jewish Nation captive.)

Nicolas: Victory of the people

Nicodemas: Conqueror/Victory for the people, (This was the man that Jesus told, “You Must be born again.”)

Noah: Peace/Rest, (Noah built the ark that saved him, his family and the animals at the time of the flood.)

Name Meanings Beginning With "O"

Orpah: A fawn/Lively maiden/Neck

Name Meanings Beginning With "P"

Paul: Small, (but Paul was never small in achievement, he was one of the outstanding preachers in the New Testament.)

Peter: A rock, (After denying that he knew Jesus, Peter became a fearless and very effective preacher.)

Philip: A lover of horses.

Phoebe: Pure/Bright, (Phoebe was a deaconess of a New Testament church.)

Priscilla: (Was one of Paul’s helpers and the wife of Aquila, a Jewish tent maker.)

Name Meanings Beginning With "R"

Rachel: A ewe, (Rachel was the wife of Jacob and the mother of Joseph.)

Rahab: Spacious, (Rahab was the name of a prostitute in Jericho.)

Rebekah: A knotted cord, She was wife of Isaac in the Bible.)

Reuben: Behold a son, (Jacob’ eldest son.)

Rhoda: Rose bush

Ruth: Female companion, (Ruth was the wife of Boaz, an ancestor of Jesus.)

Name Meanings Beginning With "S"

Samuel: Asked of God, (Samuel anointed the shepherd, David, who slew the philistine giant and later became king David.)

Salome: Peace, Salome entered the tomb of Jesus.)

Sapphira: Deep blue/Beautiful

Sapphire: Deep blue

Sarah: A princess, (Sarah was the wife of Abraham.)

Seth: The appointed one, (Seth was the first son of Adam and Eve.)

Sharon: A flat plane

Simeon: Hearing, (Simeon is another name of Simon.)

Simon: Hearing

Solomon: Peaceable/Wants peace, (King Solomon asked God to give him wisdom and became the wisest man who ever lived, (except for Jesus of course.)

Sophia: Wisdom

Stephen: A crown/A garland.)

Susan: Lilly, (Jesus said that the lilies of the field were beautiful.)

Susanna: A Lilly/A rose, Susanna was a believer who ministered to Jesus.)

Name Meanings Beginning With "T"

Tabitha: A gazelle/A doe

Tamara: A palm tree

Tiffany: The Trinity/Manifestation of God

Tim: Shortened from Timothy, means, Revere God - Honored by God

Timothy: Honoring God/Honored by God

Name Meanings Beginning With "U"

Uriah: God is light

Name Meanings Beginning With "Z"

Zacharias: Remembered by the Lord, (He was the father of John the Baptist.)

Zion: Fortress, (Zion is also used for the Jewish homeland

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