God said to Avraham, *As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
Genesis 17:5 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Neither will your name any more be called Avram, but your name will be Avraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of 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 Avraham, *As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
He said, *Your name will no longer be called Ya`akov, but Yisra'el; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.*
Ya`akov asked him, *Please tell me your name.* He said, *Why is it that you ask what my name is?* He blessed him there.
God said to him, *Your name is Ya`akov. Your name shall not be Ya`akov any more, but your name will be Yisra'el.* He named him Yisra'el.
and he sent by the hand of Natan the prophet; and he named him Yedidyah, for the LORD's sake.
You are the LORD the God, who did choose Avram, and brought him forth out of Ur of the Kasdim, and gave him the name of Avraham,
You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord GOD will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:
It happened on the next day, that Pashchur brought forth Yirmeyahu out of the stocks. Then said Yirmeyahu to him, the LORD has not called your name Pashchur, but Magor-Missaviv.
In his days Yehudah shall be saved, and Yisra'el shall dwell safely; and this is his name by which he shall be called: the LORD our righteousness.
These are the names of the men who Moshe sent to spy out the land. Moshe called Hoshea the son of Nun Yehoshua.
He brought him to Yeshua. Yeshua looked at him, and said, *You are Shim`on the son of Yonah. You shall be called Kefa* (which is by interpretation, Rock).
As it is written, *I have made you a father of many nations.* This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.