{"id":21936,"date":"2025-01-16T01:06:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=21936"},"modified":"2026-09-19T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:07:44","slug":"adrian-bible-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/adrian-bible-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian steht nicht in der Bibel \u2013 es bedeutet \u201eaus Hadria\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Adrian is not in the Bible. It is Latin \u2014 Hadrianus, &quot;from Hadria&quot; \u2014 and Hadria was an Etruscan port on the north Italian coast, the town that also gave its name to the Adriatic Sea. The name says nothing about virtue. It says where a family came from. And that, dear friends, turns out to be exactly how Scripture names most of the people we love. What does the name Adrian mean? &quot;From Hadria.&quot; The Romans used it as\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>Adrian is not in the Bible. It is Latin for &quot;from Hadria&quot; \u2014 and Scripture is full of people named by where they came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[221],"class_list":["post-21936","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":21936,"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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