About names in the Bible

Jacob wrestling with the angel, by Gustave Doré
2 Chronicles 7:16

For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my NAME may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

Psalms 41:5

Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his NAME perish?

Psalms 45:17

I will make thy NAME to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

Psalms 109:13

Let his posterity be cut off; [and] in the generation following let their NAME be blotted out.

Proverbs 22:1

A [good] NAME [is] rather to be chosen than great riches, [and] loving favour rather than silver and gold.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good NAME [is] better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.

Jeremiah 20:3

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy NAME Pashur, but Magormissabib.

Mark 5:9

And he asked him, What [is] thy NAME? And he answered, saying, My NAME [is] Legion: for we are many.

–From the King James Bible, translated from Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic texts by a committee of 47 scholars of the Church of England, and published in 1611.

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