No one named Lisa appears in the Bible, but the name it comes from does. Lisa is a short form of Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist in the first chapter of Luke. Elizabeth is the Greek form of the Hebrew Elisheba, “my God is an oath,” the name of Aaron’s wife in Exodus 6:23. Elizabeth in the Gospel of Luke Luke introduces Elizabeth as the wife of Zechariah, a priest, and says she was descended from Aaron: “he…

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