Favorite unique biblical names?

General Name Discussion
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What are your favorite unique biblical names? Boy and girl!

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Ananias
Kol
[name_m]Abram[/name_m]
[name_m]Kenan[/name_m]
[name_u]Azariah[/name_u]
[name_m]Joel[/name_m]
[name_m]Mordecai[/name_m]
[name_m]Lazarus[/name_m]

Marah
[name_f]Hadassah[/name_f]
[name_f]Jemima[/name_f]

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Definitely [name_m]Mordechai[/name_m] and [name_m]Lazarus[/name_m]!

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Hadassah :heart_eyes:

Bathsheba
[name_f]Bethia[/name_f]
[name_f]Hephzibah[/name_f]
[name_f]Tirzah[/name_f]

Ariel
[name_m]Bartholomew[/name_m]
[name_m]Emmanuel[/name_m]
[name_m]Gideon[/name_m]
[name_u]Israel[/name_u]
[name_m]Judah[/name_m]
[name_m]Moses[/name_m]

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There may be a couple that are not in the bible but they have religious meanings

  • [name_m]Adlai[/name_m]/Adaliah
  • [name_f]Adina[/name_f]
  • [name_m]Adonai[/name_m]
  • Ara (son of Jether of the tribe of Asher)
  • [name_u]Ariel[/name_u]/Ari
  • [name_m]Asaiah[/name_m] ([name_m]Lord[/name_m] has made)
  • [name_f]Atara[/name_f], [name_f]Keturah[/name_f], [name_f]Keziah[/name_f]
  • [name_f]Avielle[/name_f]/Aviela (God is my father)
  • [name_m]Azaiah[/name_m] (my strength is Yahweh)
  • [name_m]Azarius[/name_m]/Azariah*/Azarias/Azria (God/Yahweh has helped)
  • [name_m]Azriel[/name_m]/Azrael/Ozriel (God is my help)
  • [name_m]Balthazar[/name_m] (Baal protects the king)
  • [name_m]Castiel[/name_m] (might not be in bible or religious but there’s archangel [name_m]Cassiel[/name_m])
  • [name_m]Dominic[/name_m]/Dominicus (belonging to god; there’s also a St. Dominic)
  • [name_m]Eliel[/name_m] (my god is god)
  • [name_m]Elior[/name_m]/Elliora (my God is my [name_u]Light[/name_u])
  • Azaryahu/Azur (God/Yah helps)
  • [name_u]Hanan[/name_u]
  • [name_m]Hezekiah[/name_m]
  • [name_u]Isra[/name_u] (b)
  • [name_m]Lazarus[/name_m]/Eleazer
  • [name_m]Mordechai[/name_m]
  • [name_m]Ozias[/name_m] (salvation)
  • [name_f]Sapphira[/name_f]
  • [name_f]Sarai[/name_f]
  • [name_m]Solomon[/name_m]
  • [name_f]Vashti[/name_f]
  • [name_m]Zachariah[/name_m]
  • [name_m]Zevadiah[/name_m] (God’s gift)
  • [name_f]Zipporah[/name_f] (wife of [name_m]Moses[/name_m])

I copied and pasted from my notes so some have notes by them and some don’t

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Shulammite
[name_f]Salome[/name_f]
[name_f]Yocheved[/name_f]
[name_f]Shifra[/name_f]
[name_f]Bathsheba[/name_f]
[name_f]Hosanna[/name_f]

Japheth
[name_m]Jephthah[/name_m]
Josaphat
[name_m]Menachem[/name_m]
[name_m]Nahum[/name_m]
[name_u]Amos[/name_u]
[name_m]Avner[/name_m]
[name_m]Gilead[/name_m]
[name_m]Nicodemus[/name_m]
[name_m]Zaccheus[/name_m]
[name_m]Zebulon[/name_m]
Manasseh
[name_m]Ezechiel[/name_m]

And of course [name_m]Barnabas[/name_m] :wink:

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Theophilus
[name_m]Nicodemus[/name_m]
[name_m]Philemon[/name_m]
[name_m]Narcissus[/name_m]

Herodias
[name_f]Magdalena[/name_f]

I like Greek biblical names

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