31 Bible Verses about People With Apt Names

Leah said: I am happy, for women will call me blessed. So she named him Asher.

Rachel was dying! With her last breath she named her son Ben-oni (Son of My Sorrow), but his father named him Benjamin (Son of My Right Hand).

Rachel named him Dan, because she said: God has answered my prayers. He has vindicated me and given me a son.

He said to Jacob: I am starving! Give me some of that red stuff. (That is why he was named Edom.)

When his second son was born, Moses said: I will name him Eliezer, because the God my father worshiped has saved me from the king of Egypt.

He named the second son Ephraim, because God made him fruitful in the land where he had suffered.

Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

Leah said: How fortunate. She called him Gad.

She bore a son, and he called his name Gershom. For he said: I have been a stranger in a strange land.

Moses was still a foreigner in Midian when his first son was born. Moses said: I will name him Gershom.

She called the boy Ichabod (No Glory), saying: Israel's glory is gone, because the Ark of God had been captured and because her father-in-law and her husband died.

Hagar bore Abram a son. Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.

Leah said: God has given me my reward, because I gave my slave to my husband. So she named him Issachar.

The second one was born holding on tightly to the heel of Esau. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

He sent a message through the prophet Nathan to name the baby Jedidiah (Jehovah's Beloved).

She named him Joseph. She said: May Jehovah give me another son.

Leah became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said: This time I will praise Jehovah. So she named him Judah (Praise). Then she stopped having children.

She became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said: Now at last my husband will become attached to me because I have given him three sons. She named him Levi.

Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh, because God helped him forget all his troubles and all about his father's family.

She said: Do not call me Naomi (meaning pleasant). Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life bitter.

When he was old enough, she took him to the king's daughter, who adopted him. She named him Moses because she said: I pulled him out of the water.

You should not take this worthless person Nabal seriously. He is like his name. His name is Nabal (Godless Fool). He is foolish. But I did not see the young men you sent.

Rachel said: I have struggled hard with my sister, and I have won! So she named the boy Naphtali.

He named him Noah. He said: He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground Jehovah has cursed.

Two sons were born to Eber. One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided. His brother was named Joktan.

When he drew back his hand, his brother came out. She said: So this is how you have broken out! He was named Perez.

Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, because she said: Certainly, Jehovah has seen my misery. Now my husband will love me!

So it was that she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel. She explained: I asked Jehovah for him.

Adam had intercourse with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth. She said: God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.

She became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said: Certainly, Jehovah has heard that I am unloved. He has also given me this son. She named him Simeon.

Leah said: God has presented me with a wonderful gift. This time my husband will honor me, because I have given him six sons. So she named him Zebulun.