31 Bible Verses about People With Apt Names

Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy." She named him Asher.

It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan.

Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.

The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword."

The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."

The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

Leah said, "How fortunate!" She named him Gad.

She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."

and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land".

She named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel;" because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.

After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

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

She named him Joseph, saying, "May Yahweh add another son to me."

She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.

Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."

She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi. Call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."

Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your handmaid, didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.

Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali.

and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."

To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.

It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.

Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."

It happened, when the time had come, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, [saying], "Because I have asked him of Yahweh."

Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, "for God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."

She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon.

Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.