9 Bible Verses about Changed Names

Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."

Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel. God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.

Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal, saying, "Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar."

and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh's sake.

But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him,