Bible names?

Question

In the Bible,everyone has names like "John," "David," "James," etc. These are obviously not their real names, because they speak Hebrew, Roman, etc. But these are all English names. Did someone just decide, "Oh, well I'm gonna name him John and him James."?

Answer 1

Your looking at the English translations. But they the people were given names for a reason. One should look at the meanings of the names.

David 1732 daw-veed' rarely (fully); Daviyd {daw-veed'}; from the same as 'dowd' (1730); loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse:--David.

David = "beloved" in meaning

Moses 4872 Mosheh mo-sheh'
from 'mashah' (4871); drawing out (of the water), i.e. rescued; Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver:--Moses.

Moses= drawen from the water in meaning.

John 2491 IwannhV oannes ee-o-an'-nace
of Hebrew origin (Yowchanan 3110); Joannes (i.e. Jochanan), the name of four Israelites:--

John = gift or grace of GOD.

Transliteration is when the letters of a word in "one language" are simply converted to the corresponding letters of "another langurage". That conversion seldoms results in bringing forth the meaning of what the Original words mean.

Example 'Kenite" is a transliteration of Hebrew word to an English word, where letters are converted, but the real translation of "Kenite" of sons of Cain. Ken means " son of" just like Mc or Mac is son.

Elijah 452 'Eliyah ay-lee-yaw' or prolonged tEliyahuw {ay-lee-yaw'-hoo}; from ''el' (410) and 'Yahh' (3050); God of Jehovah; Elijah, the name of the famous prophet and of two other Israelites:--Elijah, Eliah.

Elijah= "my GOD is Yehovah" in meaning.

All the peoples names in the bible have important meanings.

Answer 2

People may have gotten their names due to their meanings in their native language, but many people think that these names come from other places and languages than were in the bible due to the incident at the Tower of Babble, because not every language was mentioned in the Bible.

Answer 3

These are English translations of their names, in English Bibles. In Russian, John would be Ivan, and in Italian, Giovanni, and in French, Jean. (Remember Jean Baptiste Day in French Canada? French version of the name, see?)

Answer 4

David IS Hebrew

Answer 5

John for example

[English equivalent of Jehohanan, meaning “Jehovah Has Shown Favor; Jehovah Has Been Gracious”].
(Luke 1:13-14) . . .However, the angel said to him: “Have no fear, Zech·a·ri′ah, because your supplication has been favorably heard, and your wife Elizabeth will become mother to a son to you, and you are to call his name John. 14 And you will have joy and great gladness, and many will rejoice over his birth;

Answer 6

They all had Hebrew names or Greek names. They were translated into English.
Greek for Paul was ...l7au^ou
Jesus....Lnoouv
So it was loving and useful that they translated the scriptures for us. Spanish for Jesus is pronounced..(heysuz)

Answer 7

Here are the proper names in the Book of Yahweh.......

http://www.yahweh.com/PWMags/PW04_5-07/boybooknames.htm


The book of Yahweh.......

http://www.yahweh.com/bookofyahweh.htm

Isa 34:16 ¶ Seek ye out of the book of the Yahweh, and read:

Answer 8

those were translated into english the best they could....its not important so why worry? we werent there those names may have been the orig ones...Moms can do anything they want

Answer 9

well the Bible was 1st writen in hebrew then some one traslated it in to greek and so on and so forth then it came to English and they translated it!!!!!!!!!!!


DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE?

Answer 10

Yes....their parents...

Almost all of our names come from Latin....or a form of it