Is Amanda in the Bible? No. The name Amanda does not appear in the Bible. It is not Hebrew, not Aramaic, not Greek. Amanda is Latin — it comes from the verb amare, “to love” — and it did not exist as a given name until centuries after the last books of Scripture were written. But of all the names that are absent from the Bible, Amanda may be the one whose meaning is closest to the Bible’s heart. A…

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