'Named' in the Bible

And the man {named} his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life.

And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. And when he built a city {he named the city after his son, Enoch}.

Then God said to Abraham, "{Do not be displeased} on account of the boy and on account of the slave woman. {Listen to everything that Sarah said to you}, for through Isaac [your] offspring will be named.

Then Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver {at the merchants' current rate}.

Then he said, "{Isn't that why he is named Jacob}? He has deceived me these two times. He took my birthright and, look, now he has taken my blessing!" Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"

And they came to Marah, and they were not able to drink water from Marah because it was bitter. Therefore {it was named} Marah.

And the man went [to] the land of the Hittites, and he built a city and named it Luz; this [is] its name to this day.

His concubine who [was] in Shechem also bore for him a son, and {he named him} Abimelech.

So Samuel took a single stone and put [it] between Mizpah and Shen, and he named it Ebenezer and said, "Up to here Yahweh has helped us."

You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram and brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham.

{because} [there] was found in him [an] excellent spirit and understanding and insight [for] interpreting dreams and explaining riddles and solving riddles; [that is], in Daniel {whom the king named} Belteshazzar. Now, let Daniel be called and he will tell the explanation."

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas,

Then one of the twelve, the one named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests

And at that time they had a notorious prisoner named Jesus Barabbas.

And [as they] were going out, they found a man of Cyrene {named} Simon. They forced this man to carry his cross.

Now [when it] was evening, a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph came, who also was a disciple of Jesus himself.

And they came to a place {named} Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit here while I pray."

And the one named Barabbas was imprisoned with the rebels who had committed murder in the rebellion.

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee {named} Nazareth,

to a virgin legally promised in marriage to a man {named} Joseph of the house of David. And the name of the virgin [was] Mary.

And his mother answered [and] said, "No, but he will be named John."

So they made signs to his father [asking] what he wanted him to be named,

And when eight days were completed {so that he could be circumcised}, he was named Jesus, his name [that] [he] was called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

And after these [things], he went out and saw a tax collector {named} Levi sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me!"

And when day came, he summoned his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he also named apostles:

Simon (whom he also named Peter) and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew,

And behold, a man {who was named} Jairus came, and this man was a ruler of the synagogue. And he fell down at the feet of Jesus [and] began imploring him to come to his house,

Now as they traveled along, he entered into a certain village. And a certain woman {named} Martha welcomed him.

And {she had} a sister named Mary, who also sat at the feet of Jesus [and] was listening to his teaching.

And a certain poor man {named} Lazarus, covered with sores, lay at his gate,

And {there was} a man {named} Zacchaeus, and he was a chief tax collector, and he [was] rich.

[While] he was still speaking, behold, [there came] a crowd, and the one named Judas, one of the twelve, leading them. And he approached Jesus to kiss him.

And behold, a man {named} Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man

And behold, on [that] same day, two of them were traveling to a village {named} Emmaus [that was] sixty stadia distant from Jerusalem,

And one [of them], {named} Cleopas, answered [and] said to him, "[Are] you the only one living near Jerusalem and not knowing the things that have happened in it in these days?"

Now a certain man {named} Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,

But a certain man stood up in the Sanhedrin, a Pharisee {named} Gamaliel, a teacher of the law respected by all the people, [and] gave orders to put the men outside for a short time.

And [after they] had driven [him] out of the city, they began to stone [him], and the witnesses laid aside their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Now a certain man {named} Simon had been in the city practicing magic and astonishing the people of Samaria, saying he was someone great.

Now there was a certain disciple in Damascus {named} Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" And he said, "Behold, [here] I [am], Lord!"

And the Lord [said] to him, "Get up, go to the street called 'Straight' and in the house of Judas look for {a man named Saul from Tarsus}. For behold, he is praying,

and he has seen in a vision a man {named} Ananias coming in and placing hands on him so that he may regain [his] sight."

And he found there a certain man {named} Aeneas who was paralyzed, who had been lying on a mat for eight years.

Now in Joppa there was a certain female disciple {named} Tabitha (which translated means "Dorcas"). She was full of good deeds and charitable giving which she was constantly doing.

Now [there was] a certain man in Caesarea {named} Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Cohort,

And one of them {named} Agabus stood up [and] indicated by the Spirit [that] a great famine was about to come over the whole inhabited earth (which took place in the time of Claudius).

And [when] he knocked at the door of the gateway, a female slave {named} Rhoda came up to answer.

And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there {named} Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman but of a Greek father,

And a certain woman {named} Lydia from the city of Thyatira, a merchant dealing in purple cloth who showed reverence for God, was listening. The Lord opened {her} heart to pay attention to what was being said by Paul.

But some people joined him [and] believed, among whom also [were] Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman {named} Damaris and others with them.

And he found a certain Jew {named} Aquila, {a native} of Pontus who had arrived recently from Italy {along with} Priscilla his wife, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome, [and] he went to them.

And leaving there, he entered into the house of someone {named} Titius Justus, a worshiper of God whose house was next door to the synagogue.

Now a certain Jew {named} Apollos, {a native} Alexandrian, arrived in Ephesus--an eloquent man who was well-versed in the scriptures.

For someone {named} Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver replicas of the temple of Artemis, was bringing no little business to the craftsmen.

And a certain young man {named} Eutychus who was sitting in the window was sinking into a deep sleep [while] Paul was conversing at length. Being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

And [while we] were staying [there] many days, a certain prophet {named} Agabus came down from Judea.

And when it was decided [that] we would sail away to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion {named} Julius of the Augustan Cohort.

Now in the [regions] around that place were fields belonging to the chief official of the island, {named} Publius, who welcomed us [and] entertained [us] hospitably [for] three days.

nor [are they] all children because they are descendants of Abraham, but "In Isaac will your descendants be named."

And so, having as my ambition to proclaim the gospel where Christ has not been named, in order that I will not build on the foundation belonging to someone else,

above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name named, not only in this age but also in the coming one,

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),

with reference to whom it was said, "In Isaac your descendants will be named,"

And I looked, and behold, a pale green horse, and the one seated on it {was named} Death, and Hades followed after him. And authority was granted to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword and by famine and by pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.