141 occurrences in 13 translations

'Names' in the Bible

And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.

Verse ConceptsAdam, Creation OfAirAnimal LifeBirds, Features OfStars Created By God

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

Verse ConceptsCattleNot FindingMammalsNo HelpRelation Of Animals To ManAnimals Having A SoulBirdsPetslonliness

And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

Verse ConceptsFirstbornFirstborn Sons

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.

Verse ConceptsCamp, Of IsraelCastlesRulersTwelve Beings

And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

Verse ConceptsStopping WellsPeople Naming ThingsTimes Of People

These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.

And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,

Verse ConceptsRulers Of Edom

And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornFirstborn Sons

Children born to you after them will be yours and will be recorded under the names of their brothers with regard to their inheritance.

the Angel who has redeemed me from all harm—may He bless these boys.And may they be called by my nameand the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac,and may they grow to be numerous within the land.

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming PeopleAngels Looking After PeopleAngels Providing ProtectionMay God Bless!

Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.

And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Ancestry And GenealogyAge At Death

“Pay strict attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.

Verse ConceptsGod, Uniqueness OfLipsIdolatry Consists OfAnimal Sacrifices, Meal OfferingCurbing SpeechDifferent GodsIdolatryDo Not Have Other gods

And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:

Verse ConceptsTwo Ornaments

Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.

Verse ConceptsSix Things

With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenArts And Crafts, Types ofSealsPlaitingengravingGold Items For The Tabernacl

And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.

Verse ConceptsShouldersShoulder Pieces

And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.

Verse ConceptsSealsengravingTwelve TribesTwelve Things

And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.

Verse ConceptsMemorialPeople Involved In JudgementOther References To The HeartDecision Making

And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsengravingSeals

And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.

Verse ConceptsSealsengravingTwelve TribesTwelve Things

Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;

Verse ConceptsMoses, Life OfCensus

And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.

And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:

And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

Verse ConceptsCongregationAssembling IsraelMonth 2Family First

And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Verse ConceptsFirstborn Sons

Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Verse ConceptsFirstborn Sons

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.

Verse ConceptsOrdinationPriests, Institution In Ot TimesConsecrationAnointing Priests

And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.

These are the names of Kohath's descendants according to their families: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

Verse ConceptsCensus

And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.

Verse ConceptsTwenty Thousand And Up

and the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their sockets, tent pegs, and ropes, along with all their furnishings and everything for their service. You are to assign by names the items that each man is responsible to carry.

Verse ConceptsTentsPegs

And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.

These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.

Verse ConceptsPeople Renaming People

Let all the children of Israel be numbered, by the names of their fathers' families, all those of twenty years old and over who are able to go to war in Israel.

Verse ConceptsConscriptionTwenty

And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

Verse ConceptsAccording To People

Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Verse ConceptsCasting Lots

Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.

These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.

And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

Verse ConceptsPeople Of Judah

The names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for Manasseh.

He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To IsraelInvincibilityAble To StandForgetting PeopleNames Blotted OutGentile RulersThose God Gave Into Their Hands

And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

Verse ConceptsStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksBurning Idolatrous ThingsNames Blotted OutstatuesgenocideHinduism

But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

and so that you do not associate with these nations remaining among you. Do not call on the names of their gods or make an oath to them; do not worship them or bow down to them.

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessParticipation, In SinServanthood, And Worship Of GodSteadfastnessNot Swearing OathsAvoiding ForeignersDo Not Have Other gods

He captured a youth from the men of Succoth and interrogated him. The youth wrote down for him the names of the 77 princes and elders of Succoth.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersInterrogatingSeventies

The man’s name was Elimelech, and his wife’s name was Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They entered the land of Moab and settled there.

Verse ConceptsNamed Wives

Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:

Verse ConceptsFirstborn Daughterssaul

And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

Verse ConceptsThree ChildrenFirstborn Sons

And these be the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,

I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the names of the great men who are on the earth.

Verse ConceptsGod With Specific PeopleSource Of HonourLeadership Qualities

These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.

Verse ConceptsThe Mighty MenSeven To Nine HundredKilling Many People

And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:

Jokim, the men of Cozeba; and Joash and Saraph, who married Moabites and returned to Lehem. These names are from ancient records.

Verse ConceptsOld Things

These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.

Verse ConceptsPeople Multiplying

The men whose names are listed came during the time of King Hezekiah of Judah and attacked the Hamites' settlements, as well as the Meunites they discovered there, and they wiped them out to this very day. They dispossessed them, for they found pasture for their sheep there.

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationExtermination

All these were listed under the names of their families, in the time of Jotham, king of Judah, and in the time of Jeroboam, king of Israel.

And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites listed by the names of their fathers.

And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names.

And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

And their brothers, in the list of their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were heads of families, listed by the names of their fathers.

Verse ConceptsSeven To Nine Hundred

All those selected to be gatekeepers at the entrances numbered 212. Their names were recorded in the genealogical records of their settlements. David and Samuel the prophet had appointed them to their positions.

Verse ConceptsSeersVillages

And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.

Now these are the names of his children which he had in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,

And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Verse ConceptsSubdivisionsdivision

These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.

Verse ConceptsMaturity, PhysicalMiddle Age

The scribe Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, wrote down their names before the king, the officials, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the leaders of the priestly and Levite families. One family was drawn by lot from Eleazar, and then the next from Ithamar.

Here are the names of the descendants of Levi who made themselves available to God: Amasai's son Mahath and Azariah's son Joel from the descendants of Kohath; Abdi's son Kish and Jehallelel's son Azariah from the descendants of Merari; Zimmah's son Joah and Joah's son Eden from the descendants of Gershon;

And the families of the priests were listed by their fathers' names, but the Levites, of twenty years old and over, were listed in relation to their work in their divisions;

Verse ConceptsMiddle AgeTwenty

These searched [for their names] among those registered in the genealogies, but they were not found; so they were excluded from the priesthood as [ceremonially] unclean.

Verse ConceptsDeposed Priests

Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building?

Verse Conceptsstructure

We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.

And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.

Verse ConceptsSixtiesNumbers Of Males

And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

Verse ConceptsMonth 10

And my God put it into my heart to get together the rulers and the chiefs and the people so that they might be listed by families. And I came across a record of the names of those who came up at the first, and in it I saw these words:

Verse ConceptsArchivesNobles

They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen, so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.

Verse ConceptsArchivesDeposed Priests

In view of all this, we are making a binding agreement in writing on a sealed document containing the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.

Verse ConceptsAgreementLiteracyWritingCovenant RelationshipsLater Covenants With God

Now on the sealed document were the names of: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,

Verse ConceptsGovernorsSealing Things

No one remembers him anywhere in the land; no one names streets in his honor.

Verse ConceptsOblivionDeath Of The WickedForgetting Peopleremembrance

Let me not give respect to any man, or give names of honour to any living.

Verse ConceptsPartiality

For I am not able to give names of honour to any man; and if I did, my Maker would quickly take me away.

Verse ConceptsSkillPeople Ended

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

Verse ConceptsBlood Of SacrificesSorrowIdolatryMaking Cereal Offerings And LibationsThe Ungodly SufferingNo Help In Other GodsWorshiping Together

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming ThingsInner Beauty

May they be erased from the Book of Life, and their names not be written with the righteous.

Verse ConceptsObliterationRemoving People From Your Life

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
καλέω 
Kaleo 
call , bid , be so named , named ,
Usage: 106

נקב 
Naqab 
Usage: 22

קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 736

שׂוּם 
 
Usage: 26

שׁם 
Shem 
Usage: 865

שׁם 
Shum (Aramaic) 
Usage: 12

ὄνομα 
Onoma 
name , named , called , surname , named , not tr
Usage: 162

ὀνομάζω 
Onomazo 
Usage: 10

τοὔνομα 
Tounoma 
Usage: 1

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