Genesis 17:5
5No longer shall your name be called Abram, ▼▼ Abram means exalted father
but byour name shall be Abraham, ▼▼ Abraham means father of a multitude
dfor I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. Genesis 17:15
Isaac’s Birth Promised
15And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah ▼ shall be her name.Genesis 32:28
28Then he said, f“Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, ▼▼ Israel means He strives with God, or God strives
for hyou have striven with God and iwith men, and have prevailed.” Isaiah 62:4
4 jYou shall no more be termed kForsaken, ▼▼Hebrew Azubah
and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, ▼
▼Hebrew Shemamah
nbut you shall be called oMy Delight Is in Her, ▼
▼Hebrew Hephzibah
and your land Married; ▼
▼Hebrew Beulah
for the Lord delights in you,
and your land shall be married.
Isaiah 62:12
12 rAnd they shall be called The Holy People,The Redeemed of the Lord;
sand you shall be called Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken.
Isaiah 65:15
15You shall leave your name to tmy chosen ufor a curse,and the Lord God will put you to death,
but his servants vhe will call by another name,
Jeremiah 33:16
16In those days Judah will be saved, wand Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: x‘The Lord is our righteousness.’Acts 11:26
26and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called yChristians.Revelation of John 2:17
17 zHe who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. aaTo the one who conquers I will give some of abthe hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with aca new name written on the stone adthat no one knows except the one who receives it.’
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