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Your favourite biblical names

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GEK1983 · 24/02/2024 00:22

Hit me with them. I tend to sway towards them. Love the sound of them but can't choose one. Boys and girls. Thanks

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miniaturepixieonacid · 24/02/2024 10:40

Completely forgot Hannah and Felix, I love those names.

On the jokey theme, my mum used to tell me that, if I'd been a boy, she'd have gone with the biblical classic Malashallahashbash. But I've never found it in the bible so she may have made that up!

She was close!

"And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived and bore a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz" (Isaiah 8:3)

I think I'd have been asking the Lord what he thought of Matthias instead ;)

Timeforachocolate · 24/02/2024 18:12

Keziah ( sp error in previous post)

Timeforachocolate · 24/02/2024 18:12

Girls:
Lydia
Lois
Pheobe
Sapphira
Deborah
Anna
Esther
Miriam
Eunice
Jemima
Keziqh

Boys:
Simeon
Jude
Benjamin
Jonah
Barnabus
Joseph
Timothy

valorie · 24/02/2024 17:59

Naomi
Leah
Emma

Reuben

I once met a Hosannah. Not a biblical name as such, but biblical. I still think what a lovely name.

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 24/02/2024 17:50

I was surprised to find Elon amongst biblical boys names. Never come across it before the Musk became famous.

Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 24/02/2024 17:46

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 24/02/2024 17:03

I don't think Herod is on many people's list ...........

Onan and his brother Er don't get much of a look in either 🤣.

InvisibleDuck · 24/02/2024 17:30

Benjamin
Ezekiel
Elijah
John

Leah
Rebecca (and I love Rivka even more)
Susannah
Talitha

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 24/02/2024 17:11

Sapphira

Hepzibah

Zipphora

Beulah

Bathsheba

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 24/02/2024 17:03

I don't think Herod is on many people's list ...........

Candleabra · 24/02/2024 16:02

Ezekiel
Zeke for short. Very cool.

JustMaggie · 24/02/2024 16:00

Mary is my favourite

theduchessofspork · 24/02/2024 15:33

Jerome
Lois

CherryRipe1 · 24/02/2024 15:24

Balthazar
Nathaniel

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 24/02/2024 14:24

Oh gosh, one of these mentioned was going to be my name. I'm so glad my parents saw sense and chose classic and beautiful rather than out-there that no-one can spell.
I love
Tabitha
Tamar

Gabriel
Jed (Jedidiah)
Joel

Mittens1717 · 24/02/2024 14:24

Love Adam, Ezra, Jonah, Lucas, Peter, Stephen, Samuel (Sam), Bethany, Hannah

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 24/02/2024 14:20

WhatsTheUseOfWorrying · 24/02/2024 07:14

All top names.

And Methuselah’s an old stand-by too.

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As is Abishag.

TempleOfBloom · 24/02/2024 14:18

Hephzibah is a long held favourite. I had a great great aunt Hepzi / Epzi

thesleepyhoglet · 24/02/2024 14:10

Ham

MaynardGMuskyvote · 24/02/2024 14:06

Deborah and Elijah

ProcrastinatingWithVipers · 24/02/2024 14:01

Konfetka · 24/02/2024 11:51

Bram? Pretty sure Abraham Lincoln was known as Abe.

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There's more than one nick name! Bram Stoker was Abraham.

My son is Abraham, known day to day as Bram, its a fab day to day name, but he has a few options when he grows up.

He decided he wanted Abraham on his dance exam certificates.

NeglectfulCatMama · 24/02/2024 13:47

Tabitha
Joseph
Emmanuel
James
Matthew
Luke
Abigail

CoffeeBeansGalore · 24/02/2024 13:46

James
Peter
Matthew

Amy
Laurel
Christianne (derived from rather than biblical)

Mamoun · 24/02/2024 13:45

Micah

LizzieSiddal · 24/02/2024 13:42

I love biblical names, despite not being religious at all, and chose them for my own children.

Abigail
Elizabeth
Lydia
Esther
Noah
Jacob
Daniel

TwigTheWonderKid · 24/02/2024 13:39

miniaturepixieonacid · 24/02/2024 10:40

Completely forgot Hannah and Felix, I love those names.

On the jokey theme, my mum used to tell me that, if I'd been a boy, she'd have gone with the biblical classic Malashallahashbash. But I've never found it in the bible so she may have made that up!

Felix may be a person in the Bible but he was a rather nasty Roman!