biblical (Old Testament) boys' names

[tvmum1976]

which ones do you like? Am prepared to accept the more 'extreme' end (we have a DS with a kind of extreme biblical name) but like the more common ones too. Any suggestions? Thank you! (NB we are jewish so old testament is better!)

Micah, said my-ker. Means to be like God.

Tis my 4ths name (all Old Testament here too).

Jonah is the coolest bible name ever ! Love Elijah too.

Nicknamegrief - I love Micah. It's on our very short shortlist. Can I ask what your other dc are called? And what girls names you like(d) as we are struggling? (Sorry for the wee hijack...)

I love Micah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Isaac, Ishmael. Also Saul. Great name.

Asa
Simeon
Ethan
Jesse
Reuben

TTC3, I've got a Jacob, Noah and Hannah.

I love Jonah and Ezra too but there are very few biblical names I don't like.

As for girls I like Rachel, Naomi and Keziah. With any luck we may use one of those for a number 5 in the future. My husband also liked Ariel for a girl but I worried too much about Little Mermaid links.

Mumcentreplus you seem quite certain about that?? Any reason?

Jacob and Micah.

Oh and Malachi.

My boys have two of the less usual names mentioned here :)

On our list for a third son:
Ishmael
Jonah/Jonas
Ezekiel
Jedidiah
Zebulon
Ezra

Jude

Nickname- how about Ariella for another girl? I met a Talia and Ariella subset which I thought was just lovely.

sibset

Just thinking teasing...'Ya big Jesse!'...and Jesse can be percieved as quite feminine so a big personality would help imo@ iclaudius

Saul
Jonah
Jedidiah
Reuben

Amos doesn't seem to have been mentioned.

also Asher Ezra Habbakuk (Ok maybe not Habbakuk it's a bit too " out there!)

Jonah and Noah are really popular round here (DH teaches and in a class of 18 boys there are 3 Noahs!)

Like Micah but be prepared for 2 mike/Mikey/Micky n the Uk and the assumption hat is " sunday name" is Michael

Asa is great too, and Malachi

Jared
Manoah (father of Samson) i've always loved this name
Joachim

Zadok
Jethro
Othniel
Methuselah
Adonijah
Abel
Belshazzar
Canaan
Joab
Nebuchadnezzar
Samson
Hazael
Melchizedek
Baruch
Goliath
Abimelech

There's Cain Abel, Moses, Aaron, Job, Boaz, Gad, Judah, Issachar, Naphtali, Zebulun.

That's all I can think of from the top of my head that I don't notice being mentioned before.

I love biblical names too but hubby isn't so keen, Elias is one of my favs and it goes gorgeously with our surname.

I love Reuben but my OH doesn't :( same with Isaac. My OH only likes boring names :p

Thinks most of mine have been covered, we had-

Obadiah (bit too out there for us)
Jeremiah
Amos
Reuben
Josiah
David
Tobias
Asher
Benjamin
Aaron
Jonah
Moses

I think Reuben and Jonah are getting more and more popular (something I was keen to avoid) and we thought Moses might be about to have a resurgence.

Love love love Josiah, Moses and Tobias and my Ds is one of those!