'Named' in the Bible

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."

There was also born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on Yahweh's name.

Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

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."

The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.

The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.

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.

He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

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."

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

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

Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed

God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.

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

She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.

She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.

She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.

the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."

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."

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

To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (the same is Hebron).

They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its suburbs around it.

The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar "A Witness Between Us that Yahweh is God."

Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal, saying, "Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar."

His concubine who was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.

The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, "There is a son born to Naomi;" and they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

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."

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.

There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

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

To this day they do what they did before: they don't fear Yahweh, neither do they follow their statutes, or their ordinances, or the law or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him with sorrow."

Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.

You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.

But you shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men will call you the ministers of our God: you will eat the wealth of the nations, and you will boast in their glory.

Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says Yahweh, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the Lord Yahweh lives.

because an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.

and didn't know her sexually until she had brought forth her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.

When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus' disciple came.

They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I pray."

There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

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

After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me!"

When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew;

Behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus' feet, and begged him to come into his house,

It happened as they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,

There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man

Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.

One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things which have happened there in these days?"

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,

But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" He said, "Behold, it's me, Lord."

The Lord said to him, "Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in, and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight."

There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.

When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a maid named Rhoda came to answer.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,

A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days.

yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

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

named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.