Biblical Names and their Meanings
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Group |
Description |
Reference |
| Dabareh | word | Joshua 21:28 |
| Dabbasheth | a hill place | Joshua 19:11 |
| Daberath | word, same as Dabareh | Joshua 19:12 |
| Dagon | a fish, name of a pagan god | Judges 16:23 |
| Dalaiah | God has drawn | 1 Chronicles 3:24 |
| Dalmanutha | slow firebrand | Mark 8:10 |
| Dalmatia | a priestly robe | 2 Timothy 4:10 |
| Dalphon | dripping | Esther 9:7 |
| Damaris | a little woman, perhaps a heifer? | Acts 17:34 |
| Damascenes | people of Damascus | 2 Corinthians 11:32 |
| Damascus | silk? | Genesis 14:15 |
| Dan | a judge | Genesis 14:14 |
| Daniel | God my judge | 1 Chronicles 3:1 |
| Danites | descendants of Dan | Judges 13:2 |
| Danjaan | purposeful judgment | 2 Samuel 24:6 |
| Dannah | judgement, you have judged | Joshua 15:49 |
| Dara | the arm | 1 Chronicles 2:6 |
| Darda | home of knowledge, pearl of knowledge | 1 Kings 4:31 |
| Darius | lord | Ezra 4:5 |
| Darkon | to fly in a circle, to scatter | Ezra 2:56 |
| Dathan | belonging to a fountain | Numbers 16:1 |
| David | well-beloved | Ruth 4:17 |
| Day Star | The Greek word "Phosphoros" is only used in 2 Peter 1:19 in the New Testament, and it is almost universally mistranslated as "Day Star" or as "Morning Star" or as "the day dawn". This word is here used to refer to Jesus Christ. If we accept that the English language had such a word as "Lucifer", then the only possible way to translate "Phosphoros" into English is as 'Lucifer", since the Greek "Phosphoros" is 100% identical to the Latin "Lucifer", and neither of these two words has anything to do with "stars" or "days" or "morning". In this verse Peter called Jesus Christ "Lucifer". See also the entries under "Heylel" and "Lucifer". | 2 Peter 1:19 |
| Debir | sanctuary, perhaps to join together | Joshua 10:3 |
| Deborah | a bee | Genesis 35:8 |
| Decapolis | containing ten cities | Matthew 4:25 |
| Dedan | low country | Genesis 10:7 |
| Dedanim | the descendants of Dedan | Isaiah 21:13 |
| Dehavites | perhaps the sickly? | Ezra 4:9 |
| Dekar | son of stabbing, same as Bendekar | 1 Kings 4:9 |
| Delaiah | God has drawn | 1 Chronicles 24:18 |
| Delilah | pining with desire, feeble | Judges 16:4 |
| Demas | popular, governor of the people | Colossians 4:14 |
| Demetrius | belonging to corn, belonging to Ceres | Acts 19:24 |
| Derbe | a tanner of skin | Acts 14:6 |
| Deuel | the knowledge of God, they know God | Numbers 1:14 |
| Deuteronomy | the Greek word means "second law", referring to the repetition of the law, the Jews at times call it "Mishnah Torah" referring to this repetition, and it has sometimes also been called "Elleh hadebarim" after the first two Hebrew words in this book | Deuteronomy 1:1 |
| Diana | luminous, complete light | Acts 19:24 |
| Diblaim | two cakes of figs | Hosea 1:3 |
| Diblath | place of the fig cake | Ezekiel 6:14 |
| Dibon | pining, wasting | Numbers 21:30 |
| Dibongad | pining, wasting | Numbers 33:45 |
| Dibri | eloquent, my word | Leviticus 24:11 |
| Didymus | a twin, double, two fold | John 11:16 |
| Diklah | palm grove | Genesis 10:27 |
| Dilean | cucumber field, gourd | Joshua 15:38 |
| Dimnah | dunghill | Joshua 21:35 |
| Dimon | river bed | Isaiah 15:9 |
| Dimonah | river bed | Joshua 15:22 |
| Dinah | judgment | Genesis 30:21 |
| Dinaites | judgment | Ezra 4:9 |
| Dinhabah | he gives judgment | Genesis 36:32 |
| Dionysius | devoted to Bacchus | Acts 17:34 |
| Dioscuri | the twin pagan gods of sailors, Castor and Pollux | Acts 28:11 |
| Diotrephes | nourished by Jupiter | 3 John 1:9 |
| Dishan | a threshing, thresher | Genesis 36:21 |
| Dishon | thresher | Genesis 36:21 |
| Dizahab | where much gold is | Deuteronomy 1:1 |
| Dodai | beloved, loving | 1 Chronicles 27:4 |
| Dodanim | leaders | Genesis 10:4 |
| Dodavah | love, beloved of God | 2 Chronicles 20:37 |
| Dodo | his beloved | Judges 10:1 |
| Doeg | fearful | 1 Samuel 21:7 |
| Dophkah | a knocking | Numbers 33:12-13 |
| Dor | generation | Joshua 11:2 |
| Dorcas | a female roe-deer, gazelle | Acts 9:36 |
| Dothan | two wells | Genesis 37:17 |
| Drusilla | watered by the dew | Acts 24:24 |
| Dumah | silence | Genesis 25:14 |
| Dura | dwelling | Daniel 3:1 |