More Biblical Names and their Meaning

By Apolinario Villalobos

Samuel                        - God hears

Eleazar                        - God has helped

Elijah               - Jehovah is God

Micah              - short for Micalah or Michel (who is like God?)

Zechariah        - Jehovah remembers

Salome                        - female for Solomon

Solomon          - peaceable

Deborah          - bee

Ester                - star

Reuel               - God is friend

Jethro              - excellence

Belah               - destruction

Levi                  - joined

Asher               - happy

Emmanuel       - God with us

Babel               - gate of God (tower of Babel/Babylon)

Anna                - grace

Judith               - Judean, Jew

Perez/Peres     - to split

Simon              - hearing

Zadok              - righteous

Saul/Paul         - asked of God

Judas               - praised

Lebanon          - white

Hazel               - almond tree

Peor                 - opening

Euphrates        - to break forth

Cyprus             - copper

Elizabeth         - God is my oath

Jonathan          - Jehovah has given

Negeb              - dry