9 Bible Verses about Changed Names

Most Relevant Verses

Genesis 17:5

Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham. For I have made you a father of many nations.

Genesis 17:15

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

Genesis 32:28

And He said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for like a prince you have power with God and with men, and have prevailed.

Genesis 41:45

And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah. And he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On, for his wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

Genesis 35:10-11

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

Ezekiel 48:35

All around it shall be eighteen thousand cubits. And the name of the city from that day shall be JEHOVAH IS THERE.

Judges 6:32

And on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal contend against him because he has thrown down his altar.

2 Samuel 12:25

And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he called his name Jedidiah, because of Jehovah.

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