9 Bible Verses about Changed Names

No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.

Then God said to Abraham, "As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.

"No longer will your name be Jacob," the man told him, "but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed."

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah. He also gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph took charge of all the land of Egypt.

God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name." So God named him Israel. Then God said to him, "I am the sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation -- even a company of nations -- will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!

The circumference of the city will be six miles. The name of the city from that day forward will be: 'The Lord Is There.'"

That very day Gideon's father named him Jerub-Baal, because he had said, "Let Baal fight with him, for it was his altar that was pulled down."

and sent word through Nathan the prophet that he should be named Jedidiah for the Lord's sake.

But Saul (also known as Paul), filled with the Holy Spirit, stared straight at him