Biblical Names and their Meanings
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Group |
Description |
Reference |
| Laadah | order | 1 Chronicles 4:21 |
| Laadan | put into order | 1 Chronicles 7:26 |
| Laban | white | Genesis 24:29 |
| Lachish | hard to be captured | Joshua 10:3 |
| Lael | (created) by God, belonging to God | Numbers 3:24 |
| Lahad | oppression | 1 Chronicles 4:2 |
| Lahairoi | (well of the one) who lives and sees me | Genesis 24:62 |
| Lahmam | their bread, provisions | Joshua 15:40 |
| Lahmi | my bread | 1 Chronicles 20:5 |
| Laish | a lion | Judges 18:7 |
| Lakum | stopping up the way, a fortified place | Joshua 19:33 |
| Lamech | powerful | Genesis 4:18 |
| Laodicea | justice of the people, names in honour of Laodice, the wife of Antiochus II | Colossians 2:1 |
| Laodiceans | inhabitants of Laodicea | Colossians 4:16 |
| Lapidoth | lamps, torches | Judges 4:4 |
| Lasea | thick or shaggy | Acts 27:8 |
| Lasha | crevice, opening, hot springs? | Genesis 10:19 |
| Lasharon | plain, plain country, same as Sharon | Joshua 12:18 |
| Lazarus | whom God helps | Luke 16:20 |
| Leah | weary, tired | Genesis 29:16 |
| Lebana | whiteness of the moon | Nehemiah 7:48 |
| Lebanah | whiteness of the moon | Ezra 2:45 |
| Lebanon | white | Deuteronomy 1:7 |
| Lebaoth | to see, lions | Joshua 15:32 |
| Lebbaeus | a man of heart | Matthew 10:3 |
| Lebonah | frankincense | Judges 21:19 |
| Lecah | progress, journey | 1 Chronicles 4:21 |
| Lehabim | flames, a people of Egyptian origin | Genesis 10:13 |
| Lehi | jawbone | Judges 15:9 |
| Lemuel | belonging to God | Proverbs 31:1 |
| Leshem | a precious stone | Joshua 19:47 |
| Letushim | hammered, sharpened | Genesis 25:3 |
| Leummim | a people, a nation | Genesis 25:3 |
| Levi | joined to | Genesis 29:34 |
| Leviathan | twisted in f | Job 41:1 |
| Levite | descendant of Levi | Exodus 4:14 |
| Libertines | those who had been freed from slavery | Acts 6:9 |
| Libnah | white bark, the white poplar tree | Numbers 33:20 |
| Libni | white | Exodus 6:17 |
| Libnites | descendants of Libni | Numbers 3:21 |
| Libya | a bow, same as Phut and Put | Ezekiel 30:5 |
| Libyans | same word as Libya | Jeremiah 46:9 |
| Libyans | same word as Lubim | Daniel 11:43 |
| Lightbringer | In the OT the Hebrew word "Aaron" means "lightbringer". In the NT the Greek word "phosphoros" means "lightbringer". In the Latin Vulgate text "lucifer" means "lightbringer". In 2 Peter 1:19 "phosphoros" clearly refers to Jesus Christ, and it is mistranslated as "the day star". If we accept that the name "Lucifer" is an acceptable word in the English language, then the only possible correct translation in 2 Peter 1:19 is "Lucifer", in clear reference to Jesus Christ. See also the entries under "heylel", "Day Star' and "Lucifer". | 2 Peter 1:19 |
| Likhi | imbued with learning | 1 Chronicles 7:19 |
| Linus | net | 2 Timothy 4:21 |
| Loammi | not my people | Hosea 1:9 |
| Lod | contention, strife, travail | 1 Chronicles 8:12 |
| Lodebar | without pasture | 2 Samuel 9:4 |
| Lois | agreeable | 2 Timothy 1:5 |
| Loruhamah | not having obtained mercy | Hosea 1:6 |
| Lot | a covering | Genesis 11:27 |
| Lotan | a covering | Genesis 36:20 |
| Lubim | an inhabitant of an arid country | 2 Chronicles 12:3 |
| Lucas | same name as Luke, light-giving, from the same root as the name Lucifer | 2 Corinthians 13:14 |
| Lucifer | The Latin name "Lucifer" means "lightbringer". But the name "Lucifer" is a blatant mistranslation of the Hebrew word "heylel" in Isaiah 14:12. The word "heylel" really means "Mad Boaster" and not "lightbringer". It is the Hebrew name "Aaron" and the NT Greek word "phosphoros" that both mean "lightbringer" or "lucifer". See also the entries under "Heylel", "Day Star" and "Lightbringer". | Isaiah 14:12 |
| Lucius | light, bright | Acts 13:1 |
| Lud | strife | Genesis 10:22 |
| Ludim | descendants of Lud | Genesis 10:13 |
| Luhith | made of boards | Isaiah 15:5 |
| Luke | same as Lucas, light-giving | Colossians 4:14 |
| Luz | almond tree | Genesis 28:19 |
| Lycaonia | land of wolves | Acts 14:6 |
| Lycaonian | RSV, Darby, the speech of Lycaonia | Acts 14:11 |
| Lycia | wolf-like | Acts 27:5 |
| Lydda | strife | Acts 9:32 |
| Lydia | strife, same as Lud | Exekiel 30:5 |
| Lydians | same as Ludim | Jeremiah 46:9 |
| Lysanias | that drives away sorrow | Luke 3:1 |
| Lysias | dissolver, releaser | Acts 23:26 |
| Lystra | ransoming | Acts 14:6 |