שֵׁם ὄνομα Name

שֵׁם ὄνομα Name

Usage

Identity

1. Names of persons
2. Names of animals
3. Names of things
4. Names of gods

Reputation

1. “He will set you high above all nations... in praise, in name, and in honor” (Dt 26:19)
2. “That they may become My people, for renown, for praise, and for glory” (Jer 13:11)
3. “I will appoint them for praise and fame” (Zeph 3:19)
4. Men of renown (Gen 6:4; Num 16:2; 1 Chron 5:24)
5. Sons of vile men (lit. sons of no-name; Job 30:8)
6. Jesus’ name had become well known (Mk 6:14)
7. “You have a name that you are alive” (Rev 3:1)
8. Good reputation
1. Good name (Ecc 7:1)
2. “A name is to be chosen rather than great riches” (Prov 22:1)
9. Bad reputation
1. “brings a bad name on her” (Dt 22:14)
10. Making a name
1. Man
1. “Let us make a name for ourselves” (Gen 11:4)
2. David made a name (2 Sam 8:13)
2. God making a name for Himself

Remembrance

1. Remembrance by God
1. “And it shall be to the LORD for a name” (Isa 55:13)
2. Everlasting name
1. “I will give them an everlasting name” (Isa 56:5)
3. Removal of name
1. “I will destroy them and blot out their name” (Dt 9:14)
2. “cut off our name from the earth” (Josh 7:9)
3. “The memory of him perishes... and he has no name among the renowned” (Job 18:17)
4. “and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant” (2 Sam 14:7)
5. “I will... cut off from Babylon the name and and remnant” (Isa 14:22)
4. Name passed on to descendants
1. “In Isaac your seed shall be called” (Gen 21:12)
2. “Let my name be named upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac” (Gen 48:16)
3. “I have no son to keep my name in remembrance” (2 Sam 18:18)
4. Preserving the name of a person who has no son (Deut 25:5-10; Num 27:1-11; Ruth 4:5)

Name for persons

1. “The number of names was about a hundred twenty” (Acts 1:15)
2. “You have a few names” (Rev 3:4)
3. “Seven thousand people” (Rev 11:3)
4. “Question of word and names” (Acts 18:15)

Used with prepositions

1. Hebrew
1. בְּשֵׁם
1. general usage
1. by name (Josh 21:9; Isa 44:5)
2. after the name (Judg 18:29)
3. in the name (1 Sam 25:9; 1 Kgs 21:8; Est 2:22; 3:12; 8:8; 10; Jer 29:25)
1. with the mention of; on the commission of; on the authority of
2. combined with the name of God (see topical study on the name of God)
2. Greek
1. ἐν (τῷ) ὀνόματι   
1. in the name: 1 Sam 25:9
2. εἰς (τὸ) ὄνομα
1. Mt 10:41, 42
3. διὰ τὸ ὄνομα
1. Mt 24:9; Mk 13:13; Lk 21:17; Jn 15:21; 1Jn 2:12; Rev 2:13
4. διὰ τοῦ ὀνόματος
1. Acts 4:30
5. περὶ (τοῦ) ὀνόματος(ων)
6. κατʼ ὄνομα
7. ἐκ τοῦ ὀνόματος
1. in someone's name: Est 8:8
8. ἐξ ὀνόματος
1. by name: Ex 31:2; 35:30; Num 1:17; 3:17; 32:42
9. ἐπί τῷ ὀνόματι
1. call after someone/something: Gen 4:17; 48:6
2. in someone’s name: 1 Sam 25:5; 1 Kgs 21:8

Used with other verbs

1. with ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι
1. ἔρχεσθαι “comes in (the) name” (Mt 21:9; 23:39; Jn 5:43)
2. εὐχαριστεῖν “giving thanks in the name” (Eph 5:20)
3. ποιεῖν “do in the name” (Jn 10:25; Acts 4:7; Col 3:17)
4. δαιμόνια ἐκβάλλειν “cast out demons in the name” (Mk 9:38; 16:17; Lk 9:49)
5. τὰ δαιμόνια ὑποτάσσεται “the demons are subject in the name” (Lk 10:17)
6. λαλεῖν “spoke in the name” (Jas 5:10)
7. παρρησιάζεσθαι “was bold in the name” (Acts 9:27)
8. παραγγέλλειν “command in the name” (Acts 16:18; 2 Thess 3:6)
9. πᾶν γόνυ κάμπτει “all knee might bow at the name” (Php 2:10)
10. ἀπολούω “washed in the name” (1 Cor 6:11)
11. ἁγιάζω “sanctified in the name” (1 Cor 6:11)
12. δικαιοῦσθαι “justified in the name” (1 Cor 6:11)
13. ἀλείφειν “anoint with oil in the name” (Jas 5:14)
14. αἰτεῖν “ask in the name” (Jn 14:13, 14; 15:16; 16:23f, 26)
15. πέμπειν “send in the name” (Jn 14:26)
16. ὀνειδίζειν “reproached for the name” (1 Pet 4:14)
17. ποτίζειν “give drink in the name” (Mk 9:41)
18. ζωὴν ἔχειν “have life in the name” (Jn 20:31)
19. τηρεῖν “keep in the name” (Jn 17:11)
20. ἐγείρειν καὶ περιπατεῖν “rise up and walk in the name” (Acts 3:6)
21. σῴζεσθαι “saved by the name” (Acts 4:12)
22. παρέστηκεν ὑγιής “stand whole by the name” (Acts 4:10)
23. βαπτίζεσθαι “baptized in the name”  (Acts 10:48)
2. with ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι
1. δέχεσθαι “receive in the name” (Mt 18:5)
2. δαιμόνια ἐκβάλλειν “cast out demons in the name” (Lk 9:49)
3. ποιεῖν δύναμιν “work a miracle in the name” (Mk 9:39)
4. ἔρχεσθαι “come in the name” (Mt 24:5)
5. λαλεῖν “speak in the name” (Acts 4:17; 5:40)
6. διδάσκειν “teach in the name” (Acts 4:18; 5:28)
7. κηρύσσεσθαι “preach in the name” (Lk 24:47)
8. βαπτίζεσθαι “baptize in the name” (Acts 2:38)
3. with εἰς ὄνομα
1. receive (Mt 10:41)
2. give a drink (Mt 10:42)
4. without prepositions
1. ὀνομάζω “named” (Eph 1:21)

Naming

1. God called/named His creation (Gen 1:8)
2. God named mankind (Gen 5:2)
3. Adam naming all the beasts and birds (Gen 2:19f)
4. Naming of a city (2 Sam 12:28)
5. “They call their lands after their own names” (Ps 49:11)
6. God calls all the stars by name (Ps 147:4)
7. “I have called you by name; You are mine” (Isa 43:1)
8. “I know you by name” (Ex 33:12, 17)
9. “You shall call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise” (Isa 60:18)
10. God named Jacob Israel (2 Kgs 17:34)
11. The chief of the eunuchs named Daniel, Hanaiah, Mishael, and Azariah (Dan 1:7)
12. Peter (Mt 3:16)

Being called by the name of another

1. “Only let us be called by your name” (Isa 4:1)
2. “Those who were never called by your name” (Isa 63:19)
3. “My people who are called by My name” (2 Chron 7:14)
4. “This house which is called by My name” (Jer 7:10)
5. “the ark of God, whose name is called by the Name” (2 Sam 6:2)
6. The city which is called by God’s name” (Jer 25:29; Dan 9:18)
7. “I am called by Your name” (Jer 15:16)

Names of believers

1. “He calls his own sheep by name” (Jn 10:3)
2. “Your names are written in heaven” (Lk 10:20)
3. Written in the Book of Life (Php 4:3; Rev 3:5; cf. Rev 13:8; 17:8; Heb 12:23)

New name

1. Jerusalem (Isa 62:2)
2. “Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth” (Zech 8:3)
3. The LORD’s servants (Isa 65:15)
4. written on a white stone (Rev 2:17)

Names with meaning

1. Names of persons
1. Eve (Gen 3:20)
2. Cain (Gen 4:1)
3. Noah (Gen 5:29)
4. Abraham (Gen 17:5)
5. Sarah (Gen 17:15)
6. Isaac (Gen 17:17; 18:12; 21:6)
7. Esau (Gen 25:25, 30)
8. Jacob (Gen 25:26; 27:36; Hos 12:4)
9. Israel (Gen 32:29)
10. Twelve sons of Jacob (Gen 29:31-30:24; 35:18)
11. Zaphnath-paaneah, Joseph’s name by Pharaoh (Gen 41:45)
12. Samuel (1 Sam 1:20)
13. Nabal (1 Sam 25:25)
14. Jehoikim (2 Kgs 23:34)
15. Zedekiah (2 Kgs 24:17)
16. Jezreel (Hos 1:4)
17. Lo-Ruhamah (Hos 1:6)
18. Lo-Ammi (Hos 1:9)
19. Daniel and his companions (Dan 1:7)
2. Names of places
1. Babel (Gen 11:9)
2. Bethel (Gen 28:17, 19)
3. “Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth” (Zech 8:3)