Эллисон нет в Библии — это имя означает «благородного происхождения»

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  • Allison is not in the Bible. It is a medieval diminutive of Alice, from Old French Aalis and Adelais, from Germanic Adalheidis — адаль (“noble”) and heit (“kind, sort”).
  • Alison and Allison are the same name; neither spelling is more correct.
  • In the world that produced the name, nobility was inherited. Peter reassigns the vocabulary to ordinary believers with no rank: “a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation” (1 Peter 2:9).
  • Luke calls the Bereans “of more noble character” for listening eagerly and then checking the Scriptures daily (Acts 17:11) — openness and verification together.
  • Nobility in Scripture is conferred before anything is achieved, not a standard to be met.

Allison is not in the Bible. It is a medieval diminutive of Alice — Aalis in Old French, a worn-down Adelais, itself shortened from the Germanic Adalheidis, from adal, noble, and heit, kind or sort. Of the noble kind. Which is a claim, dear friends, and Scripture is very interested in claims like that — mostly in who is entitled to make them. What does the name Allison mean? “Of noble kind,” by way of Alice. In medieval France and…

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Sources: Behind the Name entries for Allison and Alice (Old French Aalis from Adelais, from Germanic Adalheidis, adal + heit); Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (1 Peter 2:9; Acts 17:11).

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