{"id":11609,"date":"2025-05-29T01:05:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T01:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=11609"},"modified":"2026-09-19T17:15:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:15:51","slug":"adriana-biblical-name-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/adriana-biblical-name-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Adriana kommt nicht in der Bibel vor \u2013 aber das Adriatische Meer schon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Adriana is not in the Bible. But the sea it is named after is \u2014 and it is named in the middle of the worst fortnight of Paul&#039;s life. Adriana is the feminine of Adrian, from the Latin Hadrianus, &quot;from Hadria.&quot; Hadria was an Etruscan port on the north Italian coast, and it gave its name to the water beside it: the Adriatic. What does the name Adriana mean? &quot;From Hadria.&quot; Like most Roman names it records a place rather\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adriana is not in the Bible, but the Adriatic is \u2014 named in Acts 27, on the fourteenth night of a storm with no sun and no stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[221],"class_list":["post-11609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education","series-names-and-their-biblical-meanings"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18895,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/is-adrienne-name-in-the-bible\/","url_meta":{"origin":11609,"position":0},"title":"Adrienne Is Not in the Bible \u2014 and Neither Was &#8220;Christian&#8221;, at First","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"Februar 11, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Adrienne is a feminine of a masculine of a place \u2014 and \"Christian\" was a label outsiders coined at Antioch. 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