﻿ 27 Bible verses about People Naming Things (HCSB)

People Naming Things

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Genesis 2:19-20


Ecclesiastes 6:10


Psalm 49:11

Their graves are their eternal homes,
their homes from generation to generation,
though they have named estates after themselves.

Exodus 16:15

When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” because they didn’t know what it was.Moses told them, “It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat.

Exodus 16:31

The house of Israel named the substance manna. It resembled coriander seed, was white, and tasted like wafers made with honey.

Genesis 4:17


Numbers 32:41

Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages, which he renamed Jair’s Villages.

Deuteronomy 3:14

Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took over the entire region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He called Bashan by his own name, Jair’s Villages, as it is today.

Numbers 32:42

Nobah went and captured Kenath with its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

2 Samuel 12:28


Genesis 26:18


Genesis 21:31


Genesis 28:19


Genesis 35:15

Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

Genesis 33:20


Judges 6:24

So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it Yahweh Shalom. It is in Ophrah of the Abiezrites until today.

Exodus 15:23


Deuteronomy 3:9

which the Sidonians call Sirion, but the Amorites call Senir,

Joshua 19:47


2 Samuel 5:9

David took up residence in the stronghold, which he named the city of David. He built it up all the way around from the supporting terraces inward.

Matthew 27:8


1 Kings 7:21

He set up the pillars at the portico of the sanctuary: he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin; then he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz.

2 Samuel 18:18

When he was alive, Absalom had set up a pillar for himself in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name. It is still called Absalom’s Monument today.

Genesis 26:20


Genesis 26:22


Genesis 26:21


Genesis 26:33

He called it Sheba. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

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