Is Your Name in the Bible? A Directory of 161 Names

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Resumen

  • Most names people search for are not in Scripture. Nearly all of them are Greek, Latin, Germanic, Celtic or English, and reached us long after the last book was written.
  • That is a fact about languages, not a verdict on anyone.
  • Scripture changes names more often than we remember — Abram to Abraham, Simon to Peter, Saul to Paul — and the change is always given, never earned.
  • This directory links 169 name articles, each stating plainly whether the name appears in Scripture and what it actually means, with the etymology checked rather than guessed.
  • Where a name has a genuine biblical cousin, such as Sandra in Alexander or Liam in Eliam, the article tells that person’s story.

Most of us have looked. At some point — often late, often while naming a child — we have typed our own name and the word Bible into a search box, hoping to find ourselves somewhere in the story. Here is the honest answer, dear friends, offered once so that the rest of this page can be useful: most of our names are not in Scripture. Nearly all the names in this directory are Greek, Latin, Germanic, Celtic or English,…

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Sources: etymologies in the linked articles are checked against Behind the Name; Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Revelation 2:17).

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