Quotes about Naming
The younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.
— Genesis 19:38
And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.
— Genesis 3:20
Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.
— Numbers 13:24
Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
— Genesis 30:8
But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.
— Genesis 38:29
Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
— Genesis 31:47
So she conceived and gave birth to a son, and Judah named him Er.
— Genesis 38:3
And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
— Genesis 41:52
The Christian role, as part of naming the name of the crucified and risen Jesus on territory presently occupied by idols, is to speak the truth to power and especially to speak up for those with no power at all.
— NT Wright
After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.
— Genesis 25:26
Christian doctrine grows disciples by teaching them to perceive, name, and act in ways that demonstrate the reality of the gospel, speaking and showing what is "in Christ.
— Kevin Vanhoozer
(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.
— Deuteronomy 2:20