What is Your Name?

[missmuffet]

1 hour ago, Cyoder said:

Christopher meaning bearer of Christ or one who carries Christ in their heart.  I never looked that up before.  It actually made me a little emotional.  

Love the name Christopher.

[missmuffet]

A lot of people are not comfortable with listing their name so you may not get a lot of replies.

[TheBlade]

I had no choice haha.. my mom.. you know me at 63 soon to be 64 man I miss her but she told me soooo many times she named me after Daniel in the bible "God is my Judge". Now do I like Daniel, Dan, Danny? Somethings stick with us through out our life don't you think so? Well when I was young a girl I liked called me "Danny".. since then I love being called Danny haha. Yeah sad haha

[Ray12614]

Ray means “protection.” It's a shortened version of the name Raymond, which means “wise protector” or “counsel hand” when translated from Old German.

Certainly I have lived up to that name at various times, and other times not so much. However . . . I was really named after Ray Charles, an black singer in the early 50's because my older sister loved the music of that singer at the time I was born.

Why oh why didn't my parents stop that crazy idea I will never know .. . . . .

Please don't ask me to sing 'Georgia' . . . . LOL

[Vine Abider]

Puddin' Tame - ask me again and I'll tell you the same!  

[Marathoner]

8 minutes ago, Vine Abider said:

Puddin' Tame - ask me again and I'll tell you the same!  

Tapiocer Puddin? 

[Vine Abider]

1 hour ago, Marathoner said:

Tapiocer Puddin? 

Never had that - anything like tapioca pudding?

[Logostician]

My current name will pass away.  I don't know what my new name will be.  But I know it will be the right name 

Revelation 2:17

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

Revelation 3:12

Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

[farouk]

On 12/28/2024 at 2:52 PM, Cyoder said:

Christopher meaning bearer of Christ or one who carries Christ in their heart.  I never looked that up before.  It actually made me a little emotional.  

Hi @Cyoder It is searching to be challenged to live up to the meaning, right?

[Retrobyter]

On 12/27/2024 at 3:33 PM, Dennis1209 said:

Biblical names and numbers add to our understanding of scripture. Do you know the meaning of your name?

My name, Dennis, means “follower of Dionysius, a Christian saint.” My parents were not Christians at the time, and believe me, my lifestyle was anything but saintly.

Has anyone ever considered Hebrew and Greek names in the Bible, the meaning of hundreds of them, incorporating them and associating their names with Biblical study?

With our Western minds, we generally give little thought to naming our children, with the meaning of the name (generally with exceptions of course). In the ancient Hebrew-Jewish world, did they officially name their babies as we do, just before or after birth?

Some were a primitive type of surname, i.e., Simon Bar-jona, the family name of the apostle Simon Peter—‘Bar- Jona’ or ‘Bar-Jonas’ (Mt 16:17).^[1] Simon meaning “he who hears,” but there is much more to that, as with every Biblical name.

Most Hebrew names were not associated with a son of the father. Many Biblical names and meanings give us an accurate glimpse of hundreds of their personalities, traits, characters, circumstances, or calling.

Other than by divine intervention with hundreds of names in the Bible that accurately describe the above. How did the father have the insight to know their child’s character, personality, traits, or calling as newborn babes?

 

 

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^[1] Johannes P. Louw and Eugene Albert Nida, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains (New York: United Bible Societies, 1996), 819.

Shalom, @Dennis1209.

My given name is "Roy," a Teutonic name meaning "red." I have considered using "Adam," it's Hebrew equivalent, which also means "red," for my "nom de plume" or "pen name" in the books I'm writing.

Most Hebrew boys are named at their circumcision, on the 8tn day after their birth. In the Bible, the son or daughter is named based upon the circumstances or the feelings at his or her birth. On rare occasions, such as our Lord's birth or His cousin's, Yochanan's birth, they were named first by an angel of God.

I think it's fun to read through Genesis, look up the name given to the person being born, and see what it meant and read the account of that person's birth to see why he or she was so named. There's usually some reason in the name. I also find it interesting to note how the original name sounded and was written and compare it to how it was transliterated into English characters and the names we find common today.

For instance, the name of our Lord was and still is "יֵשׁוּעַ," (Strong's H3442) which I transliterate as "Yeeshuwa`," which suggests how the name originally sounded: "Yay-shoo'-(g)ah," in which the "`ayin" or "`" (sometimes called a "back-tick") represented with the "(g)," is like a swallowed "g" sound, like when a child tries to immitate a frog's croak in the "Gunk! Gunk! Went the Little Greek Frog" preschool song. It means "He shall save" or "He shall deliver" or "He shall rescue." And, one can learn this from Matthew 1:

Matthew 1:19-21 (KJV)

19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just [man], and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. 20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying,

"Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. 21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS (Greek: Ἰησοῦς = Ieesous = Hebrew: יֵשׁוּעַ = Yeeshuwa`): for 'HE SHALL SAVE' his people from their sins."

Contrary to popular belief, "יֵשׁוּעַ" is NOT the same name as "יְהוֹשׁוּעַ" which is transliterated as "Yhowshuwa`" and given the English spelling "Joshua" or "Jehoshua" (in Numbers 13:16 and 1 Chronicles 7:27). It means "YHWH saved," "YHWH delivered," or "YHWH rescued." Note: These two names are not even spelled the same in Hebrew! Now, the GREEK language may have confused them in trying to transliterate them into Greek letters, but they are NOT the same name in Hebrew! The "yod-" prefix (y-) is the THIRD-PERSON, SINGULAR PRONOUN form of the verb. The "yod-hei-vav-" prefix are the first three letters of God's covenant Name, "YHWH," also called the "Tetragrammaton," Greek for "having four letters."