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An Interpreting Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names



Showing the Meaning of Nearly All the Names of Persons and Places in the Bible


by Roswell Hitchcock


Note:
It should be observed that there is uncertainty about the derivation of some of some words in Hebrew,
so that some of the following names may have either of several meanings.
There are also some whose meaning, from a variety of circumstances, are altogether obscure or uncertain.
These are omitted from this dictionary.

New York, 1874

Reformatted by Katie Stewart


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CONTENTS.



A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L

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A

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 - "voluptuous"

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 - "enclosure or fortress"

Aphekah - "force; strength"

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
- plural of Ashtoreth

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


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B



Baal - "master; lord"

Baalah - "her idol; she that is governed or subdued; a spouse"

Baalath - "a rejoicing; our proud lord"

Baalath-beer - "subjected pit"

Baal-berith - "idol of the covenant"

Baale - same as Baalath

Baal-gad
- "idol of fortune or felicity"

Baal-hamon - "who rules a crowd"

Baal-hermon - "possessor of destruction or of a thing cursed"

Baali - "my idol; lord over me"

Baalim - "idols; masters; false gods"

Baalis - "a rejoicing; a proud lord"

Baal-meon - "idol or master of the house"

Baal-peor - "master of the opening"

Baal-perazim - "god of divisions"

Baal-shalisha - "the god that presides over three; the third idol"

Baal-tamar - "master of the palm-tree"

Baal-zebub - "god of the fly"

Baal-zephon - "the idol or possession of the north; hidden; secret"

Baanah - "in the answer; in affliction"

Baara - "a flame; purging"

Baaseiah - "in making; in pressing together"

Baasha - "he that seeks, or lays waste"

Babel - "confusion; mixture"

Babylon - same as Babel

Baca
- "a mulberry-tree"

Bahurim - "choice; warlike; valiant"

Bajith - "a house"

Balaam - "the ancient of the people; the destruction of the people"

Baladan - "one without judgment"

Balak - "who lays waste or destroys"

Bamah - "an eminence or high place"

Barabbas - "son of shame, confusion"

Barachel - "that bows before God"

Barachias - same as Barachel

Barak
- "thunder, or in vain"

Barjesus - "son of Jesus or Joshua"

Barjona - "son of a Jona; of a dove"

Barnabas - "son of the prophet, or of consolation"

Barsabas - "son of return; son of rest"

Bartholomew - "a son that suspends the waters"

Bartimeus - "son of the honorable"

Baruch - "who is blessed"

Barzillai - "son of contempt; made of iron"

Bashan - "in the tooth, in ivory"

Bashemath - "perfumed; confusion of death; in desolation"

Bathsheba - "the seventh daughter; the daughter of satiety"

Bathsuha - same as Bathsheba

Bealiah
- "the god of an idol; in an assembly"

Bealoth - "cast under"

Bebai - "void, empty"

Becher - "first begotten; first fruits"

Bechorath - "first fruits"

Bedad - "alone; solitary"

Bedaiah - "the only Lord"

Bedeiah - "the only Lord"

Bedan - "according to judgment"

Beeliada - "an open idol"

Beelzebub - same as Baalzebub

Beer
- "a well"

Beera - "a well; declaring"

Beerelim - "the well of Elim, or of rains"

Beeri - "my well"

Beer-lahai-roi - "the well of him that liveth and seeth me"

Beeroth - "wells; explaining"

Beersheba - "the well of an oath; the seventh well"

Behemoth - "beasts"

Bekah - "half a shekel"

Belah - "destroying"

Belial - "wicked, worthless"

Belshazzar - "master of the treasure"

Belteshazzar - "who lays up treasures in secret"

Ben - "a son"

Benaiah - "son of the Lord"

Ben-ammi - "son of my people"

Beneberak - "sons of lightning"

Bene-jaakan - "sons of sorrow"

Benhadad - "son of Hadad, or noise"

Benhail - "son of strength"

Benhanan - "son of grace"

Benjamin - "son of the right hand"

Benimi - "our sons"

Beno - "his son"

Benoni - "son of my sorrow, or pain"

Benzoheth - "son of separation"

Beon - "in affliction"

Beor - "burning; foolish; mad"

Bera - "a well; declaring"

Berachah - "blessing; bending the knee"

Berachiah - "speaking well of the Lord"

Beraiah - "the choosing of the Lord"

Berea - "heavy; weighty"

Bered - "hail"

Beri - "my son; my corn"

Beriah - "in fellowship; in envy"

Berith - "covenant"

Bernice - "one that brings victory"

Berodach-baladan - "the son of death"

Berothai - "wells; a cypress"

Berothath - "of a well"

Besai - "a despising; dirty"

Besodeiah - "counsel of the Lord"

Besor - "glad news; incarnation"

Betah - "confidence"

Beten - "belly"

Bethabara - "the house of confidence"

Bethanath - "house of affliction"

Bethany - "the house of song; the house of affliction"

Betharabah - "house of sweet smell"

Beth-aram - "house of height"

Beth-aven - "the house of vanity; of iniquity of trouble"

Beth-azmaveth - "house of death's strength"

Beth-baalmeon - "an idol of the dwelling-place"

Beth-barah - "the chosen house"

Beth-birei - "the house of my Creator, the house of my health"

Beth-car - "the house of the lamb"

Beth-dagon - "the house of corn, or of fish"

Beth-diblathaim - "house of dry figs"

Beth-el - "the house of God"

Bethemek - "house of deepness"

Bether - "division, or in the trial"

Bethesda - "house of pity or mercy"

Beth-ezal - "a neighbor's house"

Beth-gader - "a house for a mouse"

Beth-gamul - "house of recompense, or of the camel"

Beth-haccerem - "house of the vineyard"

Beth-haran - "house of grace"

Beth-horon - "house of wrath"

Beth-lebaoth - "house of lionesses"

Beth-lehem - "house of bread"

Beth-marcaboth - "house of bitterness wiped out"

Beth-meon - "house of the dwelling-place"

Beth-nimrah - "house of rebellion"

Beth-palet - "house of expulsion"

Beth-pazzez - "house of dividing asunder"

Beth-peor - "house of gaping, or opening"

Bethphage - "house of my month, or of early figs"

Beth-phelet - same as Beth-palet

Beth-rapha
- "house of health"

Bethsaida - "house of fruits, or of food, or of snares"

Bethshan or Beth-shean - "house of the tooth, or of ivory, or of sleep"

Beth-shemesh - "house of the sun"

Bethuel - "filiation of God"

Beth-zur - "house of a rock"

Betonim - "bellies"

Beulah - "married"

Bezai - "eggs"

Bezaleel - "in the shadow of God"

Bezek - "lightning; in the chains"

Bezer - "vine branches"

Bichri - "first-born; first fruits"

Bidkar - "in compunction, or sharp pain"

Bigthan - "in the press; giving meat"

Bigvai - "in my body"

Bildad - "old friendship"

Bileam - "the ancient of the people; the devourer"

Bilgah - "ancient countenance"

Bilhah or Bilhan - "who is old or confused"

Bilshan - "in the tongue"

Binea - "son of the Lord"

Binnui - "building"

Birsha - "an evil; a son who beholds"

Bishlam - "in peace"

Bithiah - "daughter of the Lord"

Bithron - "divisions"

Bithynia - "violent precipitation"

Bizjothjah - "despite"

Blastus - "that buds or brings forth"

Boanerges - "son of thunder"

Boaz or Booz - "in strength"

Bocheru - "the first born"

Bochim - "the place of weeping; or of mulberry-trees"

Bohan - "in them"

Boskath - "in poverty"

Boson - "taking away"

Bozez - "mud; bog"

Bozrah - "in tribulation or distress"

Bukki - "void"

Bukkiah - "the dissipation of the Lord"

Bul - "old age; perishing"

Bunah - "building; understanding"

Bunni - "building me"

Buz - "despised; plundered"

Buzi - "my contempt"


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C



Cabbon - "as though understanding"

Cabul - "displeasing; dirty"

Caiphas - "he that seeks with diligence; one that vomiteth"

Cain - "possession, or possessed"

Cainan - "possessor; purchaser"

Calah - "favorable; opportunity"

Calcol - "nourishing"

Caleb - "a dog; a crow; a basket"

Caleb-Ephratah - see Ephratah

Calneh - "our consummation"

Calno - "our consummation; altogether himself"

Calvary - "the place of a skull"

Camon - "his resurrection"

Cana - "zeal; jealousy; possession"

Canaan - "merchant; trader; or that humbles and subdues"

Candace - "who possesses contrition"

Capernaum - "the field of repentance; city of comfort"

Caphtor - "a sphere, buckle, or hand"

Cappadocia - the same as Caphtor

Carcas
- "the covering of a lamb"

Charchemish - "a lamb; as taken away; withdrawn"

Careah - "bald; ice"

Carmel - "circumcised lamb; harvest; full of ears of corn"

Carmi - "my vineyard; lamb of the waters"

Carpus - "fruit; fruitful"

Carshena - "a lamb; sleeping"

Casiphia - "money; covetousness"

Casluhim - "hopes of life"

Cedron - "black; sad"

Cenchrea - "millet; small pulse"

Cephas - "a rock or stone"

Cesar - "a name applied to those who are cut out of the womb"

Chalcol - "who nourishes, consumes, and sustains the whole"

Chaldea - "as demons, or as robbers"

Charran - "a singing or calling out"

Chebar - "force or strength"

Chedorlaomer - "roundness of a sheaf"

Chelal - "as night"

Chelub - "a basket"

Chelluh - "all"

Chelubai - "he altogether against me"

Chemarims - "black ones"

Chemosh - "handling; stroking; taking away"

Chenaanah - "broken in pieces"

Chenani - "my pillar"

Chenaniah - "preparation, or disposition, or strength, of the Lord"

Chephirah - "a little lioness"

Cheran - "anger"

Cherethims or Cherethites - "who cut or tear away"

Cherith - "cutting; piercing; slaying"

Chesed - "as a devil, or a destroyer"

Chesil - "foolishness"

Chesulloth - "fearfulness"

Chidon - "a dart"

Chiliab - "totality; or the perfection of the father"

Chilion - "finished; complete; perfect"

Chilmad - "teaching or learning"

Chimham - "as they; like to them"

Chios - "open; opening"

Chisleu, Cisleu, Casleu - "rashness; confidence"

Chislon - "hope, trust"

Chisloth-tabor - "fears; purity"

Chittem - "those that bruise; gold"

Chloe - "green herb"

Chorazin - "the secret; here is a mystery"

Chozeba - "men liers in wait"

Christ - "anointed"

Chun - "making ready"

Chushan-rishathaim - "blackness of iniquities"

Chuza - "the seer or prophet"

Cilicia - "which rolls or overturns"

Cis - same as Kish

Clauda - "a lamentable voice"

Claudia or Claudius - "lame"

Clement - "mild; good; merciful"

Cleophas - "the whole glory"

Cnidus - "age"

Colhozeh - "every prophet"

Colosse - "punishment; correction"

Coniah - "strength of the Lord"

Coos - "top, summit"

Corinth - "which is satisfied; ornament; beauty"

Cornelius - "of a horn"

Cosam - "divining"

Coz - "a thorn"

Cozbi - "a liar; sliding away"

Crescens - "growing; increasing"

Crete - "carnal; fleshly"

Crispus - "curled"

Cush, Cushan, Cushi - "Ethiopians; blackness"

Cuth or Cuthah - "burning"

Cyprus - "fair; fairness"

Cyrene - "a wall; coldness; the floor"

Cyrenius - "who governs"

Cyrus - "as miserable; as heir"


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D



Dabareh - "the word; the thing; a bee; obedient"

Dabbasheth - "flowing with honey"

Daberath - same as Dabareh

Dagon
- "corn; a fish"

Dalaiah - "the poor of the Lord"

Dalmanutha - "a bucket; a branch"

Dalmatia - "deceitful lamps; vain brightness"

Dalphon - "the house of caves"

Damaris - "a little woman"

Damascus - "a sack full of blood; the similitude of burning"

Dan - "judgment; he that judges"

Daniel - "judgment of God; God my judge"

Dannah - "judging"

Darah - "generation; house of the shepherd or of the companion"

Darda - "home of knowledge"

Darius - "he that informs himself"

Darkon - "of generation; of possession"

Dathan - "laws or rites"

David - "well-beloved, dear"

Debir - "an orator; a word"

Deborah - "word; thing; a bee"

Decapolis - "containing ten cities"

Dedan - "their breasts; friendship; a judge"

Dedanim - "the descendants of Dedan"

Dekar
- "force"

Delaiah - "the poor of the Lord"

Delilah - "poor; small; head of hair"

Demas - "popular"

Demetrius - "belonging to corn, or to Ceres"

Derbe - "a sting"

Deuel - "the knowledge of God"

Deuteronomy - "repetition of the law"

Diana - "luminous, perfect"

Diblaim - "cluster of figs"

Diblath - "paste of dry figs"

Dibon - "abundance of knowledge"

Dibon-gad - "great understanding; abundance of sons"

Dibri - "an orator"

Dibzahab or Dizahab - "where much gold is"

Didymus - "a twin; double"

Diklah or Dildah - "his diminishing"

Dilean - "that is poor"

Dimon - "where it is red"

Dimonah - "dunghill"

Dinah - "judgment; who judges"

Dinhabah - "he gives judgment"

Dionysius - "divinely touched"

Diotrephes - "nourished by Jupiter"

Dishan - "a threshing"

Dishon - "fatness; ashes"

Dodai - "or"

Dodanim - "beloved"

Dodavah - "love"

Dodo - "his uncle"

Doeg - "careful, who acts with uneasiness"

Dophkah - "a knocking"

Dor - "generation, habitation"

Dorcas - "a female roe-deer"

Dothan - "the law; custom"

Drusilla - "watered by the dew"

Dumali - "silence; resemblance"

Dura - same as Dor


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Ebal - "ancient heaps"

Ebed - "a servant; laborer"

Ebed-melech - "the king's servant"

Eben-ezer - "the stone of help"

Eber - "one that passes; anger"

Ebiasaph - "a father that gathers or adds"

Ebronah - "passage over; being angry"

Ecclesiastes - "a preacher"

Ed - "witness"

Eden - "pleasure; delight"

Eder - "a flock"

Edom - "red, earthy; of blood"

Edrei - "a very great mass, or cloud"

Eglah - "heifer; chariot; round"

Eglaim - "drops of the sea"

Eglon - same as Eglah

Egypt
- "that troubles or oppresses; anguish"

Ehud - "he that praises"

Eker - "barren, feeble"

Ekron - "barrenness; torn away"

Eladah - "the eternity of God"

Elah - "an oak; a curse; perjury"

Elam - "a young man; a virgin; a secret"

Elasah - "the doings of God"

Elath - "a hind; strength; an oak"

El-beth-el - "the God of Bethel"

Eldaah - "knowledge of God"

Eldad - "favored of God; love of God"

Elead - "witness of God"

Elealeh - "burnt-offering of God"

Eleazar - "help of God, court of God"

El-elohe-Israel - "God, the God of Israel"

Eleph - "learning"

Elhanan - "grace, or gift, or mercy of God"

Eli - "the offering or lifting up"

Eli - "my God, my God"

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