Edward is not in the Bible. It is Old English — ead, wealth or fortune, joined to weard, guard. A guardian of wealth. A rich protector. It is one of the very few Anglo-Saxon names to survive the Norman Conquest, and the reason it survived is worth knowing. What does the name Edward mean? Ead-weard: the guard of what is valuable. The first element gives us the old word for prosperity and good fortune; the second is the same ward…

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