Quotes about Naming
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
Then his brother came out with the scarlet thread around his wrist, and he was named Zerah.
— Genesis 38:30
And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
— Genesis 41:52
So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,
— Numbers 1:17
So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.
— Numbers 11:3
Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.
— Numbers 13:24
(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.
— Deuteronomy 2:20
which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—
— Deuteronomy 3:9
His concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
— Judges 8:31
And when Samson had finished speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.
— Judges 15:17
So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.
— Judges 15:19
They went up and camped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. That is why the place west of Kiriath-jearim is called Mahaneh-dan to this day.
— Judges 18:12