Topic

Name

Passages from across the Bible

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Value of a good

  • Proverbs 22:1 A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.
  • Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.

A new name given to persons who have spiritual adoption

  • Isaiah 62:2 Nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.

To Abraham

  • Genesis 17:5 No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

Sarah

  • Genesis 17:15 Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.

Jacob

  • Genesis 32:28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”

Paul

  • Acts 13:9 Then Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked directly at Elymas

Intercessional influence of the name of Jesus, for his people

  • Nahum 1 This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite: The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies. The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by… (whole chapter)

See JESUS, IN HIS NAME

Symbolical

  • Hosea 1:3–4 So Hosea went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
  • Hosea 1:6 Gomer again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them.
  • Hosea 1:9 And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.
  • Hosea 2:1 “Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’

Word study: the Hebrew and Greek words behind “name” →

Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.