Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


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 Name Meaning 
  AARON   a teacher; lofty; mountain of strength  
  ABADDON   the destroyer  
  ABAGTHA   father of the wine-press  
  ABANA   made of stone; a building  
  ABARIM   passages; passengers  
  ABBA   father  
  ABDA   a servant; servitude  
  ABDEEL   a vapor; a cloud of God  
  ABDI   my servant  
  ABDIEL   servant of God  
  ABDON   servant; cloud of judgment  
  ABEDNEGO   servant of light; shining  
  ABEL   vanity; breath; vapor  
  ABEL   a city; mourning  
  ABEL-BETH-MAACHAH   mourning to the house of Maachah  
  ABEL-MAIM   mourning of waters  
  ABEL-MEHOLAH   mourning of sickness  
  ABEL-MIZRAIM   the mourning of Egyptians  
  ABEL-SHITTIM   mourning of thorns  
  ABEZ   an egg; muddy  
  ABI   my father  
  ABIAH   the Lord is my father  
  ABI-ALBON   most intelligent father  
  ABIASAPH   consuming father; gathering  
  ABIATHAR   excellent father; father of the remnant  
  ABIB   green fruit; ears of corn  
  ABIDAH   father of knowledge  
  ABIDAN   father of judgment  
  ABIEL   God my father  
  ABIEZER   father of help  
  ABIGAIL   the father's joy  
  ABIHAIL   the father of strength  
  ABIHU   he is my father  
  ABIHUD   father of praise; confession  
  ABIJAH   the Lord is my father  
  ABIJAM   father of the sea  
  ABILENE   the father of mourning  
  ABIMAEL   a father sent from God  
  ABIMELECH   father of the king  
  ABINADAB   father of a vow, or of willingness  
  ABINOAM   father of beauty  
  ABIRAM   high father; father of deceit  
  ABISHAG   ignorance of the father  
  ABISHAI   the present of my father  
  ABISHALOM   father of peace  
  ABISHUA   father of salvation  
  ABISHUR   father of the wall; father of uprightness  
  ABITAL   the father of the dew; or of the shadow  
  ABITUB   father of goodness  
  ABIUD   father of praise  
  ABNER   father of light  
  ABRAM   high father  
  ABRAHAM   father of a great multitude  
  ABSALOM   father of peace  
  ACCAD   a vessel; pitcher; spark  
  ACCHO   close; pressed together  
  ACELDAMA   field of blood  
  ACHAB   brother of the father  
  ACHAIA   grief; trouble  
  ACHAICUS   a native of Achaia; sorrowing; sad  
  ACHAN   or Achar, he that troubleth  
  ACHAZ   one that takes, or possesses  
  ACHBOR   a rat; bruising  
  ACHIM   preparing; revenging; confirming  
  ACHISH   thus it is; how is this  
  ACHMETHA   brother of death  
  ACHOR   trouble  
  ACHSAH   adorned; bursting the veil  
  ACHSHAPH   poison; tricks  
  ACHZIB   liar; lying; one that runs  
  ADADAH   testimony of the assembly  
  ADAH   an assembly  
  ADAIAH   the witness of the Lord  
  ADALIAH   one that draws water; poverty; cloud; death  
  ADAM   earthy; red  
  ADAMAH   red earth; of blood  
  ADAMI   my man; red; earthy; human  
  ADAR   high; eminent  
  ADBEEL   vapor, or cloud of God  
  ADDI   my witness; adorned; prey  
  ADDIN   adorned; delicious; voluptuous  
  ADDON   basis; foundation; the Lord  
  ADIEL   the witness of the Lord  
  ADIN   adorned; voluptuous; dainty  
  ADINA   adorned; voluptuous; dainty  
  ADITHAIM   assemblies; testimonies  
  ADLAI   my witness; my ornament  
  ADMAH   earthy; red; bloody  
  ADMATHA   a cloud of death; a mortal vapor  
  ADNA   pleasure; delight  
  ADNAH   eternal rest  
  ADONI-BEZEK   the lightning of the Lord; the Lord of lightning  
  ADONIJAH   the Lord is my master  
  ADONIKAM   the Lord is raised  
  ADONIRAM   my Lord is most high; Lord of might and elevation  
  ADONI-ZEDEK   justice of the Lord; lord of justice  
  ADORAIM   strength of the sea  
  ADORAM   their beauty; their power  
  ADRAMMELECH   the cloak, glory, grandeur or power of the king  
  ADRAMYTTIUM   the court of death  
  ADRIEL   the flock of God  
  ADULLAM   their testimony; their prey; their ornament  
  ADUMMIM   earthy; red; bloody things  
  AENEAS   praised; praiseworthy  
  AENON   a cloud; fountain; his eye  
  AGABUS   a locust; the father's joy or feast  
  AGAG   roof; upper floor  
  AGAR   or Hagar, a stranger; one that fears  
  AGEE   a valley; deepness  
  AGRIPPA   one who causes great pain at his birth  
  AGUR   stranger; gathered together  
  AHAB   uncle, or father's brother  
  AHARAH   a smiling brother; a meadow of a sweet savor  
  AHARHEL   another host; the last sorrow; a brother's sheep  
  AHASBAI   trusting in me; a grown-up brother  
  AHASUERUS   prince; head; chief  
  AHAVA   essence; being; generation  
  AHAZ   one that takes or possesses  
  AHAZIAH   seizure; vision of the Lord  
  AHI   my brother; my brethren  
  AHIAH   brother of the Lord  
  AHIAM   mother's brother; brother of a nation  
  AHIAN   brother of wine  
  AHIEZER   brother of assistance  
  AHIHUD   brother of vanity, or of darkness, or of joy, or of praise; witty brother  
  AHIJAH   same with Ahiah  
  AHIKAM   a brother who raises up or avenges  
  AHILUD   a brother born, or begotten  
  AHIMAAZ   a brother of the council  
  AHIMAN   brother of the right hand  
  AHIMELECH   my brother is a king; my king's brother  
  AHIMOTH   brother of death  
  AHINADAB   a willing brother; brother of a vow  
  AHINOAM   beauty of the brother; brother of motion  
  AHIO   his brother; his brethren  
  AHIRA   brother of iniquity; brother of the shepherd  
  AHIRAM   brother of craft, or of protection  
  AHISAMACH   brother of strength  
  AHISHAHUR   brother of the morning or dew; brother of blackness  
  AHISHAR   brother of a prince; brother of a song  
  AHITHOPHEL   brother of ruin or folly  
  AHITUB   brother of goodness  
  AHLAB   made of milk, or of fat; brother of the heart  
  AHLAI   beseeching; sorrowing; expecting  
  AHOAH   a live brother; my thorn or thistle  
  AHOLAH   his tabernacle; his tent  
  AHOLIAB   the tent of the father  
  AHOLIBAH   my tent, or my tabernacle, in her  
  AHOLIBAMAH   my tabernacle is exalted  
  AHUMAI   a meadow of waters; a brother of waters  
  AHUZAM   their taking or possessing vision  
  AHUZZAH   possession; seizing; collecting  
  AI   or Hai, mass; heap  
  AIAH   vulture, raven; an isle; alas, where is it?  
  AIATH   same as Ai; an hour; eye; fountain  
  AIJELETH-SHAHAR   the land of the morning  
  AIN   same as Aiath  
  AJALON   a chain; strength; a stag  
  AKKUB   foot-print; supplanting; crookedness; lewdness  
  AKRABBIM   scorpions  
  ALAMMELECH   God is king  
  ALEMETH   hiding; youth; worlds; upon the dead  
  ALEXANDER   one who assists men  
  ALIAN   high  
  ALLELUIA   praise the Lord  
  ALLON   an oak; strong  
  ALLON-BACHUTH   the oak of weeping  
  ALMODAD   measure of God  
  ALMON   hidden  
  ALMON-DIBLATHAIM   hidden in a cluster of fig trees  
  ALPHEUS   a thousand; learned; chief  
  ALUSH   mingling together  
  ALVAH   his rising up; his highness  
  AMAD   people of witness; a prey  
  AMAL   labor; iniquity  
  AMALEK   a people that licks up  
  AMAN   mother; fear of them  
  AMANA   integrity; truth; a nurse  
  AMARIAH   the Lord says; the integrity of the Lord  
  AMASA   sparing the people  
  AMASAI   strong  
  AMASHAI   the people's gift  
  AMASHI-ALI   same as Amaziah  
  AMI   mother; fear; people  
  AMAZIAH   the strength of the Lord  
  AMINADAB   same as Amminadab  
  AMITTAI   true; fearing  
  AMMAH   my, or his, people  
  AMMI   same as Ammah  
  AMMIEL   the people of God  
  AMMIHUD   people of praise  
  AMMI-NADAB   my people is liberal  
  AMMISHADDAI   the people of the Almighty; the Almighty is with me  
  AMMIZABAD   dowry of the people  
  AMMON   a people; the son of my people  
  AMNON   faithful and true; tutor  
  AMOK   a valley; a depth  
  AMON   faithful; true  
  AMORITE   bitter; a rebel; a babbler  
  AMOS   loading; weighty  
  AMOZ   strong; robust  
  AMPLIAS   large; extensive  
  AMRAM   an exalted people; their sheaves; handfuls of corn  
  AMRAPHEL   one that speaks of secrets  
  AMZI   strong, mighty  
  ANAB   a grape; a knot  
  ANAH   one who answers; afflicted  
  ANAHARATH   dryness, burning, wrath  
  ANAK   a collar; ornament  
  ANAMIM   a fountain; answer; affliction  
  ANAMMELECH   answer; poverty of the king  
  ANANI   a cloud; prophecy; divination  
  ANANIAS   or Ananiah, the cloud of the Lord  
  ANATHEMA   separated; set apart  
  ANATHOTH   or Anath, answer; song; poverty  
  ANDREW   a strong man  
  ANDRONICUS   a man excelling others  
  ANEM   or Anen, an answer; their affliction  
  ANER   answer; song; affliction  
  ANIAM   a people; the strength or sorrow of people  
  ANIM   answerings; singings; afflicted  
  ANNA   gracious; one who gives  
  ANNAS   one who answers; humble  
  ANTICHRIST   an adversary to Christ  
  ANTIOCH   speedy as a chariot  
  ANTIPAS   for all, or against all  
  ANTIPATRIS   for, or against the father  
  ANTOTHIJAH   answers or songs of the Lord; afflictions  
  ANUB   same as Anab  
  APELLES   exclusion; separation  
  APHARSATHCHITES   Apharsites (from a root meaning) dividing or rending  
  APHEK   Aphekah, Aphik, strength; a rapid torrent  
  APHIAH   speaking, blowing  
  APOCALYPSE   uncovering, revelation  
  APOCRYPHA   hidden  
  APOLLONIA   perdition, destruction  
  APOLLONIUS   destroying  
  APOLLOS   one who destroys; destroyer  
  APOLLYON   a destroyer  
  APPAIM   face; nostrils  
  APPHIA   productive; fruitful  
  AQUILA   an eagle  
  AR   awakening; uncovering  
  ARA   cursing; seeing  
  ARAB   multiplying; sowing sedition; a window; a locust  
  ARABIA   evening; desert; ravens  
  ARAD   a wild ass; a dragon  
  ARAH   the way; a traveler  
  ARAM   highness, magnificence, one that deceives; curse  
  ARAN   an ark; their curse  
  ARARAT   the curse of trembling  
  ARAUNAH   ark; song; joyful cry  
  ARBA   four  
  ARCHELAUS   the prince of the people  
  ARCHIPPUS   a master of horses  
  ARCTURUS   a gathering together  
  ARD   one that commands; he that descends  
  ARDON   ruling; a judgment of malediction  
  ARELI   the light or vision of God  
  AREOPAGUS   the hill of Mars  
  ARETAS   agreeable, virtuous  
  ARGOB   a turf, or fat land  
  ARIEL   altar; light or lion of God  
  ARIMATHEA   a lion dead to the Lord  
  ARIOCH   long; great; tall  
  ARISTARCHUS   the best prince  
  ARISTOBULUS   a good counselor  
  ARMAGEDDON   hill of fruits; mountain of Megiddo  
  ARNON   rejoicing; sunlight  
  AROER   heath; tamarisk  
  ARPAD   the light of redemption  
  ARPHAXAD   a healer; a releaser  
  ARTAXERXES   the silence of light; fervent to spoil  
  ARTEMAS   whole, sound  
  ARUMAH   high; exalted  
  ASA   physician; cure  
  ASAHEL   creature of God  
  ASAIAH   the Lord hath wrought  
  ASAPH   who gathers together  
  ASAREEL   the beatitude of God  
  ASENATH   peril; misfortune  
  ASHAN   smoke  
  ASHBEL   an old fire  
  ASHDOD   effusion; inclination; theft  
  ASHER   happiness  
  ASHIMA   crime; offense  
  ASHKENAZ   a fire that spreads  
  ASHNAH   change  
  ASHRIEL   same as Asareel  
  ASHTAROTH   Ashtoreth, flocks; sheep; riches  
  ASHUR   who is happy; or walks; or looks  
  ASIA   muddy; boggy  
  ASIEL   the work of God  
  ASKELON   weight; balance; fire of infamy  
  ASNAPPER   unhappiness; increase of danger  
  ASRIEL   help of God  
  ASSIR   prisoner; fettered  
  ASSHURIM   liers in want; beholders  
  ASSOS   approaching; coming near  
  ASSUR   same as Ashur  
  ASSYRIA   country of Assur or Ashur  
  ASUPPIM   gatherings  
  ASYNCRITUS   incomparable  
  ATAD   a thorn  
  ATARAH   a crown  
  ATAROTH   crowns  
  ATAROTH-ADDAR   crowns of power  
  ATER   left hand; shut  
  ATHACH   thy time  
  ATHAIAH   the Lord's time  
  ATHALIAH   the time of the Lord  
  ATHLAI   my hour or time  
  ATTAI   same as Athlai  
  ATTALIA   that increases or sends  
  ATTALUS   increased, nourished  
  AUGUSTUS   increased, augmented  
  AVA   or Ivah, iniquity  
  AVEN   iniquity; force; riches; sorrow  
  AVIM   wicked or perverse men  
  AVITH   wicked, perverse  
  AZALIAH   near the Lord  
  AZANIAH   hearing the Lord; the Lord's weapons  
  AZAREEL   help of God  
  AZARIAH   he that hears the Lord  
  AZAZ   strong one  
  AZAZEL   the scape-goat  
  AZAZIAH   strength of the Lord  
  AZEKAH   strength of walls  
  AZGAD   a strong army; a gang of robbers  
  AZMAVETH   strong death; a he-goat  
  AZMON   bone of a bone; our strength  
  AZNOTH-TABOR   the ears of Tabor; the ears of purity or contrition  
  AZOR   a helper; a court  
  AZOTUS   the same as Ashdod  
  AZRIEL   same as Asriel  
  AZRIKAM   help, revenging  
  AZUBAH   forsaken  
  AZUR   he that assists or is assisted  
  AZZAN   their strength  
  AZZUR   same as Azur