God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her by the name Sarai. Rather, Sarah is her name.
Genesis 17:5 - Tree of Life Version No longer will your name be Abram, but your name will be Abraham, because I make 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 also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her by the name Sarai. Rather, Sarah is her name.
Then He said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but rather Israel, for you have struggled with God and with men, and you have overcome.”
God said to him: “Your name was Jacob. No longer will your name be Jacob, for your name will be Israel.” So He named him Israel.
and He sent word by the hand of the prophet Nathan. So he called his name Jedidiah, for Adonai’s sake.
“You are Adonai, the God who chose Abram, brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
You will leave your name behind as a curse for My chosen ones, and Adonai Elohim will slay you. But He will call His servants by another name.
The following morning, Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Adonai no longer calls your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.
In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell in safely; and this is His Name by which He will be called: Adonai our righteousness.
These are the names of the men Moses sent to investigate the land. (Now he gave Hoshea son of Nun, the name Joshua.)
Andrew brought Simon to Yeshua. Yeshua looked at him and said, “You are Simon, son of John. You shall be called Kefa (which is translated Peter).”
(as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”). He is our father in the sight of God in whom he trusted, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence that which does not exist.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Ruach is saying to Messiah’s communities. To the one who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna , and I will give him a white stone—and written on the stone a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.”