9 Bible Verses about Changed Names

Most Relevant Verses

Genesis 17:5

No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

Genesis 17:15

And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.

Genesis 32:28

And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

Genesis 41:45

And Pharaoh gave Joseph the name of Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, the priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph went through all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 35:10-11

Jacob is your name, but it will be so no longer; from now your name will be Israel; so he was named Israel. And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;

Ezekiel 48:35

It is to be eighteen thousand all round: and the name of the town from that day will be, The Lord is there.

Judges 6:32

So that day he gave him the name of Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal take up his cause against him because his altar has been broken down.

2 Samuel 12:25

And he sent word by Nathan the prophet, who gave him the name Jedidiah, by the word of the Lord.

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