What biblical names are traditionally said to mean. Search a name (“Hannah”) or a word in a meaning (“peace”, “gift”, “lord”), browse A–Z, explore the Hebrew building blocks inside names, or see names that share a meaning.
Read with care. These meanings come from Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869), a public-domain reference. They are traditional etymologies, often a rough guess or a folk reading, not settled scholarship. Modern Hebrew studies disagree with many of them, and the Bible itself sometimes gives a different explanation. Open the full dictionary entry or the person’s page for more.
Meanings: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869, public domain), via the dictionary. Linked people and places: STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Name elements are matched by BibleWay from the spelling and only shown when the meaning text agrees.