What the names of the men and women in the Bible mean, and how to say them. 1,863 names, from Aaron to Zurishaddai.
Pick a letter, then a name.
Each card shows the name in Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek letters, its sound in English letters, its meaning with the source of each meaning, and the other names the same person is called. The cards cover 2,994 people. Where several people share a name, they share one card, and the card lists each of them. Names are spelled as in modern English Bibles; where the King James Version spells a name differently, the card shows that spelling too.
Under each name in the list is its meaning in a few words, with its source. Tap the name to see its whole card.
Each form of the name is shown in Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek letters, with its sound in English letters, split into syllables by dashes.
Every meaning is labelled with its source, so you can see where the sources agree and where they differ.
For some names the Bible itself tells how the name was given or what it means. That verse is quoted from the American Standard Version (1901), copied by machine.
The meaning given in the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew lexicon (1906), from STEPBible’s brief lexicon (TBESH). Many name meanings are uncertain, and BDB sometimes gives two.
The root words and meaning from Strong’s dictionaries (1890). H and G numbers are Strong’s numbers for Hebrew and Greek words. Strong’s calls Aramaic “Chaldee”.
Every person, every Hebrew and Greek form of each name, and every first verse come from STEPBible’s list of proper names (TIPNR), made at Tyndale House, Cambridge.
Where a dictionary prints God’s name in English letters, these pages write YHWH, and Yah for its short form. The Hebrew letters stay as the dictionary prints them. Some names have no meaning in any of these sources, and their cards say so.