Quotes About Name

In case you forgot, my name is Zach Wells. It would not be so strange or awfully bad if you had forgotten.

By inserting the letters of His name into the names of the Hebrew people, their destiny was altered, and their future was revealed. Joshua is the Hebrew name Yehoshuah, meaning "God shall save". It is also the Hebrew name for Jesus. Joshua would save the nation of Israel, even as Jesus would save the wicked from their sins (Matt. 1:21).

While Moses was in Egypt, God revealed his sacred name to him, the name Yehovah! This name consists of four Hebrew letters, yod, hei, vav and hei.   This was the first time that man had ever heard this name. God said, "...this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations." – Exodus 3:15 In English, this sacred name, "Yehovah" or "Yahweh", is found almost 7,000 times in the Hebrew scriptures.

The name is considered so sacred that when the scribes would record YHVH (Yahweh) in the scriptures, they would wash, write the name, then wash themselves again! The name was considered so sacred that in the synagogues in Christ's time, when the speaker was to read the sacred name of God, he replaced it with the name Adonai. This would become the covenant name of God to the Hebrew nation.

Never pass a bar with your name on it

It seems, then, that the purpose of 3:14–15 is not to introduce a new name, but to underscore the precise identity of the God who is now addressing Moses.

Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.

Even a cigar company joined the rush to praise Steffens by naming a cigar after him and featuring his face on the box.

That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it was going to be a tough job finding it experimentally. His editor wouldn't have that, and he said, 'okay, call it the God particle,' and the editor accepted it. I don't think he should've have done, because it's so misleading'.

“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.

No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.

And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.

Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.

Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.

“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.

And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.

And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.

So she conceived and gave birth to a son, and Judah named him Er.

Then Moses asked God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ëThe God of your fathers has sent me to you,í and they ask me, ëWhat is His name?í What should I tell them?”

God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ëThe LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.í This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.