9 Bible Verses about Changed Names

Your name is no longer to be Abram. Instead your name will be Abraham, since I'll make you the father of many nations.

God told Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are not to call her Sarai any longer, because her name is to be Sarah.

"Your name won't be Jacob anymore," the man replied, "but Israel, because you exerted yourself against both God and men, and you've emerged victorious."

Pharaoh also changed Joseph's name to Zaphenath-paneah and gave Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On, to him as his wife. And that's how Joseph gained authority over the land of Egypt.

Then God told him, "Your name is Jacob. No longer are you to be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel." So God called his name Israel and also told him, "I am God Almighty. You are to be fruitful and multiply. You will become a nation in fact, an assembly of nations! Kings will come from you they'll emerge from your own loins!

A perimeter is to measure 18,000 units, and the name of the city from that time on is to be: "THE LORD IS THERE.'"

So that very day he named Gideon Jerubbaal, that is, "Let Baal fight," since he had torn down his altar.

and sent a message written by Nathan the prophet to call his name Jedidiah, for the Lord's sake.

But Saul, also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked him straight in the eye