God said to Abraham, ‘As for your wife Sarai, do not call her Sarai, for Sarah will be her name.
Genesis 17:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Your name will no longer be Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I will make you the father of many nations. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Nor shall your name any longer be Abram [high, exalted father]; but your name shall be Abraham [father of a multitude], for I have made you the father of many nations. American Standard Version (1901) Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made thee. Common English Bible And because I have made you the ancestor of many nations, your name will no longer be Abram but Abraham. Catholic Public Domain Version No longer will your name be called Abram. But you will be called Abraham, for I have established you as the father of many nations. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram. But thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations. |
God said to Abraham, ‘As for your wife Sarai, do not call her Sarai, for Sarah will be her name.
‘Your name will no longer be Jacob,’ he said. ‘It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.’
Then Jacob asked him, ‘Please tell me your name.’ But he answered, ‘Why do you ask my name? ’ And he blessed him there.
God said to him, ‘Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be named Jacob, but your name will be Israel.’ So he named him Israel.
and he sent a message through the prophet Nathan, who named him Jedidiah, because of the Lord.
You, the Lord, are the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and changed his name to Abraham.
You will leave your name behind as a curse for my chosen ones, and the Lord God will kill you; but he will give his servants another name.
The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, ‘The Lord does not call you Pashhur, but Terror Is on Every Side,
In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. This is the name he will be called: The Lord Is Our Righteousness. ,
These were the names of the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and Moses renamed Hoshea son of Nun, Joshua.
and he brought Simon to Jesus. When Jesus saw him, he said, ‘You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas’ (which is translated ‘Peter’ ).
As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations #– # , in the presence of the God in whom he believed, the one who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.
‘Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give some of the hidden manna. , I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it.