27 Bible Verses about People Naming Things

And Jehovah God will form out of the earth every living thing of the field, and all the birds of the heavens, and he will bring in to the man to see what he will call to it; and all which the man will call it to the living soul, that its name. And the man will call the names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every living thing of the field; but to the man was not found a help as before him.

What was, its name was called already, and it was known that it is man: and he shall not be able to contend with the powerful above him.

The midst of them their houses forever, their dwellings to generation and generation; they called in their names upon their lands.

And the sons of Israel will see, and they will say, each to his brother, What this? for they knew not what it was And Moses will say to them, This the bread which Jehovah gave to you to eat

And the house of Israel will call its name portion: as the seed of coriander, white, and its taste as a flat cake with honey.

And Cain will know his wife, and she will conceive and bear Enoch: and he will be building a city, and will call the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.

And Jair, the son of Manasseh, went, and he will take their villages, and he will call them the villages of Jair.

Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the region of Argob, even to the boun of Geshuri and Maachathi; and he call them according to his name, Bashan-Havath-Jair, even to this day..

And Nobah went, and he will take Kenath and its houses, and he will call it Nobah in his name.

And now gather together the rest of the people and encamp against the city, and take it, lest I shall take the city, and my name was called upon it

And Isaak will dwell, and he will dig the wells of waters which they digged in the days of Abraham his father; and the Philistines will stop them after Abraham died: and he will call them the names after the names which his father called them.

For this he called that place, The well of the oath, for there they two aware.

And he will call the name of that place the house of God: and Ailam Luz the name of the city at the beginning.

And Jacob will call the name of the place which God spake with him there, The House of God.

And he will set there an altar, and he will call upon it, God the God of Israel.

And Gideon will build there an altar to Jehovah, and he will call to him Jehovah-peace: till this day and it yet in Ophrah of the father of Edrei.

And they will come to Marah, and they will not be able to drink the waters of Marah, for they are bitter: for this he called the name bitterness.

(The Sidonians will call to Hermon, Sirion; and the Amorites will call to it, Shenk.)

And the bound of the sons of Dan went out from them: and the sons of Dan will go up and fight with Leshem, and they will take it and smite it with the mouth of the sword, and will possess it and dwell in it; and they will call Leshem, Dan, according to the name of Dan their father.

And David will dwell in the fastness, and he will call it the city of David. And David will build round about from Millo and its house.

Wherefore, that field was called, The field of blood, even to this day.

And he will raise up the pillars for the porch of the temple: and he will raise up the right pillar and call its name Jachin: and he will raise up the left pillar and call its name Boaz.

And Absalom took and set up for him in his living, a pillar in the valley of the king; for he said, Not to me a son to call my name to mind: and he will call the pillar by his name, and he will call it The Hand of Absalom, even to this day.

And the shepherds of Gerar will contend with Isaak's shepherds, saying; The waters are to us: and he will call the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.

And he will remove from thence, and will dig another well; and they strove not for that: and he will call its name Rehoboth; and he will say, For now Jehovah made wide for us, and made us fruitful in the earth.

And they will dig another well, and will strive for that also: and he will call its name Sitnah.

And he will call it oath: for this the name of the city the well of the oath till this day.