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Awful biblical names

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beanlet · 16/04/2010 16:18

Anyone else out there who thinks some biblical names are just awful? My cousin just named her DS Enoch -- bleugh! Some other ones I'd never use:

Hepzibah -- sounds like hippopotamus or heffalump.
Jezebel -- obvious reason!
Jael -- can't get the story of her hammering a tent peg through some chap's head out of my own head.

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MadamDeathstare · 31/05/2010 01:34

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othermother · 31/05/2010 00:27

I had a cat called Malachi.

Then again, I also had a cat called Hairspray.

capstone · 31/05/2010 00:07

There are some underused ones just waiting to be revived, such as Zadok, Philemon and Casiphia

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A1980 · 30/05/2010 23:44

Napthali
Issacar
Gad

LittleSilver · 26/05/2010 20:54

If I have a son, and, more unlikely, get DH to agree to this name, what do you think of Issacher?

happymumof3 · 26/05/2010 11:49

Arcadie
i have a 4 yr old Gideon to!!!Nice to meet another one

twolittlemonkeys · 26/05/2010 08:59

I like a lot of biblical names. I have Jacob and Isaac, love Ezra if we had another boy. I know a couple of Hyrums, a couple of Elijahs, Jude, Gabriel, Malachi, Ezra, lots of Noahs, Jonah, Caleb as well as lots of Josephs, Joshuas etc. But then I am LDS so might explain it, though I don't know anyone with really bizarre names

sedgiebaby · 26/05/2010 08:57

Marriednotdead, i met an Obediah once! He was known as Obie thougth

frogs · 26/05/2010 08:54

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marriednotdead · 26/05/2010 08:50

I too have a Luke but it's an old family name of ours.
An older friend had the middle name Obediah, and it always raised eyebrows when it was used

SoMuchToBits · 26/05/2010 08:46

I like Ezra (and have met a child with this name). I also like Jonah, and Absalom. I have recently found an Absalom in my family tree. We also have several Oziases in my family tree (my great, great, great grandfather and his grandfather were both Ozias) and I rather like that too, even though it's a bit unusual.

SilveryMoon · 26/05/2010 08:39

I have a Luke. We chose it because ds1 is Jacob and dp wanted to keep the biblical theme.
I wanted Joseph or Matthew, but he is Luke.

sedgiebaby · 26/05/2010 08:26

I like Caleb, Jude, Gabriel, Noah, Nathaneal and Simeon
For a girl Lydia, Abigail, Leah, Lydia, Noah, Mattia and Talitha.
There are two stories about characters called 'Tamar' that would put me off using it, I think the same goes with Judas really.

NotanOtter · 21/04/2010 20:57

I actually think Judas a beautiful name

Dorcas and Ariel both been short listers of mine

and someone had dared to put dc5 name on here

Arcadie · 21/04/2010 20:53

Bronze & sexbombbikerchick I have a 4 yr old Gideon. Only one I know of so nice that others would consider it a name worth using.
As of 20 days ago I also have a Simeon which is an OT and New Testament name.

Both known by nicknames of Giddy and Simmy.... Fear they'll have grown out of that by 15 though!

Strawbezza · 21/04/2010 15:15

Nebuchadnezzar. Judas.

nickelbabe · 21/04/2010 14:08

i was thinking about that name on sunday: it was in one of our readings and i thought, "that one'd go well on MN biblical names thread"

MrsSchadenfreude · 20/04/2010 22:33

DD1's best friend is called Avishag. Nicknamed Shag. Not good.

MmeLindt · 20/04/2010 18:07

I think that you have to pronounce Jed with about 4 syllables, Leonie for it to sound hillybillyesque.

Jeeaaaad

I like a lot of the names on this thread. Malachi is great, as is Ephraim. I would not have used them but I think they are cool.

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moondog · 20/04/2010 18:00

Actually, the LDS gang have some amazing names eh?

moondog · 20/04/2010 17:59

Better these than the incredibly dull Matthew,Luke, Thomas type names.

ActuallyMyNamesMarina · 20/04/2010 17:57

Hiram, a biblical king......my grandad was Hyrum (an alternative) - named after one of the early leaders in the Churvch of the latter Day saints!! (I have a strange family)

Enoch to me has connatations because of the Rivers of Blood speech, and it's not a name I'd like or chose.

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