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Featured studies
24 results- StudyAsking in His NameA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudySamuel Hears His Name — 1 Samuel 3A featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe NameA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyOmicron (Οο): the Greek letterThe eye, emptied into a circle, and the letter of “the Way.”
- StudyThe Great Commission: Matthew 28:18–20All authority, all nations, all things, always: and the one imperative the Commission actually contains.
Verses
971 results- VerseMatthew 12:21In His name the nations will put their hope.”
- VerseMark 5:9“What is your name?” Jesus asked. “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”
- VerseGenesis 32:27“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.
- VersePsalms 66:2Sing the glory of His name; make His praise glorious.
- VerseGenesis 30:28And he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
People
31 results- PersonHagarSarah's Egyptian servant and mother of Ishmael; the first person to name God — “Thou God seest me” (El Roi, 16:13).
- PersonAsaphA Levitical chief musician appointed by David over the temple song (1 Chr 16); twelve psalms bear his name (Ps 50, 73–83).
- PersonZacchaeusA chief publican of Jericho, rich and short of stature, who climbed a sycamore to see Jesus and was called down by name. His restitution draws the thesis-verse of Luke's…
- PersonNabalThe wealthy fool of Carmel — "as his name is, so is he" — who repaid David's protection with insult; his heart died within him when Abigail told him what her wisdom had averted.
- PersonJehoiachinCarried to Babylon after three months' reign; the captive king lifted from prison to the king's table in the book's final scene — the Davidic lamp not out, and a name in…
Places
14 results- PlaceShilohWhere the tabernacle rested through the judges' era; Hannah prayed here, Samuel heard his name in the night, and its later ruin became Jeremiah's warning to the temple city.
- PlaceGilgalIsrael's first Canaan camp where the stones were set and the reproach rolled away (Josh 4-5); later a corrupted shrine the prophets name with Bethel (Amos 4:4; Hos 4:15).
- PlaceBabelThe city and tower on the plain of Shinar where men set out to make a name for themselves, and where God confused their speech and scattered them, a confusion Pentecost reverses.
- PlaceHaranThe city in upper Mesopotamia where Terah died and Abram received his call, where Jacob served Laban twenty years for his wives and flocks, and which the prophets later name…
- PlaceZionThe eastern ridge David took from the Jebusites and made his stronghold, the name the Psalms and the prophets give the city the LORD chose, and the name Hebrews gives the…
Manuscripts
1 resultWords (Strong's)
- WordH5246 נָמֵר · namer (Hebrew)a leopard (from its stripes). The Hebrew word stands 6 times in the original text.
- WordH559 אָמַר · ʼâmar (Hebrew)to say (used with great latitude). The Hebrew word stands 5,305 times in the original text.
- WordH3050 יָהּ · Yâhh (Hebrew)Jah, the sacred name. The Hebrew word stands 50 times in the original text.
- WordH113 אָדוֹן · ʼâdôwn (Hebrew)sovereign, i.e. controller (human or divine). The Hebrew word stands 333 times in the original text.
- WordH3478 יִשְׂרָאֵל · yisraʼel (Hebrew)Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob. The Hebrew word stands 2,507 times in the original text.
Concepts
5 results- ConceptTheophoric Names: ElHundreds of Hebrew names carry El, "God," inside them: Daniel, Michael, Israel: each one a short sentence about him.
- ConceptTheophoric Names: YahThe covenant name shortened to Yah or Yeho and folded into personal names: Elijah, Isaiah, Jehoshaphat, Hallelu-Yah.
- ConceptThe Names of GodGod reveals himself by naming himself: each name a disclosure, not a label, and each one attached to a story.
- ConceptThe SerpentThe adversary of Genesis 3, identified by name in Revelation 12: "that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan."
- ConceptDisambiguationThe Bible reuses names constantly: five Marys, three Herods, two Judases at one table, and the study starts with telling them apart.
Themes
4 results- ThemeMercyMercy in Scripture is not a mood God occasionally feels but a self-disclosed name. When the LORD passes before Moses on Sinai and proclaims who He is, the first words out are…
- ThemePrayerPrayer enters the canon as a corporate act, not a private technique: "then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah" (Genesis 4:26) describes a community, not a method. The…
- ThemeCovenantIn Scripture a covenant is not a vague feeling. It is a formal, oath-bound promise between named parties, with a stated promise and usually a visible sign to mark it. (The…
- ThemeKingdom of God"The kingdom of God" names not a place first but a reign — God's kingly rule breaking in, which then produces a people and a realm who live under it. The storyline starts long…
Topics
2 resultsProphecies
9 results- ProphecyCyrus Named by NameCyrus was named by prophecy approximately 150 years before his birth.
- ProphecyJosiah Predicted by NameA king named Josiah would be born to David's line and destroy the altar at Bethel.
- ProphecyGiven the Name Above All NamesThe Messiah would be given the supreme name.
- ProphecyCyrus Named by IsaiahIsaiah named Cyrus the Great by name approximately 150 years before his birth, predicting he would release the Jewish exiles and authorize the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the…
- ProphecyBethel's Altar Desecrated by Named King JosiahAn unnamed prophet during Jeroboam's reign (c. 930 BC) named Josiah specifically as a future Davidic king who would destroy Bethel's altar—approximately 300 years before…
Apologetics
9 results- ApologeticsCyrus Named 150 Years Before His BirthIsaiah 44-45 names Cyrus the Great as Israel's deliverer roughly 150 years before his birth, describing his specific role in rebuilding Jerusalem and releasing the Jewish exiles.
- ApologeticsEdom's Perpetual DesolationEdom is the one neighbour of Israel that left no successor: no state, no people, no language, no claimant to the name. Obadiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Malachi all sentenced it…
- ApologeticsEarly Church Creedal Formulas1 Corinthians 15:3-7 is not Paul's composition — he says he "received" it, and its Aramaic name-forms, non-Pauline vocabulary and balanced clauses mark it as a fixed formula…
- ApologeticsThe Ketef Hinnom Silver ScrollsTwo rolled silver amulets from a sealed burial chamber on the shoulder of the Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem carry the priestly blessing of Numbers 6 and the divine name YHWH…
- ApologeticsThe Gallio Inscription at DelphiNine marble fragments of a public letter from the emperor Claudius, recovered at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, name "Lucius Junius Gallio, my friend and proconsul of Achaia"…
Voices
5 results- VoiceTiconiusTyconius — the name is also spelled Ticonius — was a North African layman who wrote in the second half of the fourth century. He died about 390. He was a Donatist, and he was…
- VoiceAbba PoemenPoemen is the Greek word for shepherd, and the name stuck to him. He was born in Egypt late in the fourth century, one of seven brothers who all left the world together for the…
- VoiceEusebius of GaulEusebius Gallicanus — "Eusebius of Gaul" — is not one man. It is the name a manuscript tradition attached to a collection of about seventy-six Latin sermons preached in…
- VoiceCaius Presbyter of RomeCaius — the name is also spelled Gaius — was a presbyter of the church at Rome during the episcopate of Zephyrinus, roughly 199 to 217. Eusebius calls him a very learned man…
- VoiceVenerable Barsanuphius and John the ProphetBarsanuphius and John lived in the first half of the sixth century at a monastery near Gaza, in Palestine, run by an abbot named Seridos. They are almost always named together…
Apocrypha (study resources)
240 results- Study resourceSirach 17:10And the elect shall praise his holy name.
- Study resourceSirach 47:16Thy name went far unto the islands; and for thy peace thou wast beloved.
- Study resourceSirach 44:14Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.
- Study resourceSirach 6:22For wisdom is according to her name, and she is not manifest unto many.
- Study resourceSirach 22:14What is heavier than lead? and what is the name thereof, but a fool?
Doorways
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H5246נָמֵר namer — a leopard (from its stripes)H559אָמַר ʼâmar — to say (used with great latitude)H3050יָהּ Yâhh — Jah, the sacred nameH113אָדוֹן ʼâdôwn — sovereign, i.e. controller (human or divine)H3478יִשְׂרָאֵל yisraʼel — Jisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH6629צֹאן tsoʼn — a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats)