Bible Verses About Names

And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?

And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:

And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.

For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?

I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.

And Simon he surnamed Peter;

And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.

Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed–nego.

And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?

Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name Jehovah was I not known to them.

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

Thy name, O Lord, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O Lord, throughout all generations.

And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.

For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.

And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.

And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:

And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.

Now concerning Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the tribe of Levi.

And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.

And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

Now these are the names of his children which he had in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,

Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.

And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:

Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.