Biblical names
2,474 names in all — 1,581 people, 779 places, 23 peoples, and the rest the months, the constellations, the idols the Prophets name in order to condemn them, and the words that only ever stand inside a compound. They are derived from the proper-noun tagging of our own corpus, not from a list somebody typed. The 140 main figures are all in here too, carrying the same descriptions they carry on their own list.
A name is not a person: Azaryah is one name that nineteen different men bear, and Shaul is one name shared by an Edomite king and by the king of Israel — which is why the first appearance of a name is sometimes not the first appearance of the figure you had in mind.
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A place in Syria. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 14:15.
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A city of Syria. The name stands 45 times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 14:15 and last at 2 Chronicles 28:23.
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An early king in Palestine. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 14:18 and last at Psalms 110:4.
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An early name of Jerusalem. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 14:18 and last at Psalms 76:3.
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The same four-letter Name, pointed in the text so that it is read Elohim. Scripture writes it this way where the Name stands beside Ado-nai, so that the two are not said alike.
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Strong's records this name for a Damascene and of ten Israelites. The name stands 14 times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 15:2 and last at 2 Chronicles 20:37.
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Sarah's Egyptian maidservant, given to Avram to bear him a child. She conceived Yishmael, and after Sarah weaned Yitzchak, Hagar and Yishmael were sent away, where an angel found her in the wilderness and preserved them (Genesis 16, 21). This spelling is shared with an ordinary Hebrew word, so the count reflects more than one meaning.
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A region of the Desert. The name stands six times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 16:7 and last at 1 Samuel 27:8.
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Son of Avraham and Hagar, born when Avraham was eighty-six (Genesis 16). God promised he would father twelve princes and become a great nation, though the covenant continued through Yitzchak (Genesis 17, 21, 25).
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A place in the Desert. The name stands three times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 16:14 and last at Genesis 25:11.
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Strong's records this name for a place south of Palestine, also of an Israelite. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 16:14 and last at 1 Chronicles 7:20.
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El — a Name of God, one of the seven the Rambam counts as holy and not to be erased (Foundations of the Torah 6:2). It carries the sense of might, and Scripture joins it to a word of praise: El Elyon, El Shaddai, El Chai.
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Shaddai — one of the seven Names the Rambam counts as holy (Foundations of the Torah 6:2). It is the Name by which God made Himself known to the fathers, and tradition reads it as the One who is sufficient, who said to His world dai — enough.
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The first patriarch, called by God to leave his land for Canaan with the promise that he would become a great nation (Genesis 12). His story in Genesis 12-25 includes the covenant of circumcision, the birth of Yitzchak in his old age, and the binding of Yitzchak on a mountain in the land of Moriah (Genesis 22). He died at 175 and was buried by his sons in the Cave of Machpelah, which he had purchased near Chevron (Genesis 23, 25:7-10).
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The first matriarch, Avraham's wife, who remained childless until she bore Yitzchak in her old age as God had promised, having laughed at the news beforehand (Genesis 18, 21). She died at 127 in Chevron and was buried in the Cave of Machpelah, which Avraham purchased for her burial (Genesis 23). This spelling is shared with an ordinary Hebrew word, so the count reflects more than one meaning.
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The second patriarch, son of Avraham and Sarah born in their old age as God had promised — his name reflecting the Hebrew word for “laughter,” both Avraham's and Sarah's own reactions to the news (Genesis 17:17, 18:12) and Sarah's words at his birth, “God has made laughter for me” (Genesis 21:6). He was bound by his father on the altar at Mount Moriah, married Rivkah, fathered Esav and Yaakov, and passed the covenant blessing to Yaakov (Genesis 22, 24-27). The count of this spelling includes both the patriarch and ordinary uses of that verb.
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Son of Lot by his elder daughter after the destruction of Sedom (Genesis 19:37), and the father of the nation that bore his name. Moab lies east of the Dead Sea and appears through the Tanakh as Israel's neighbour and antagonist — Balak hires Bilam there (Numbers 22-24), and Ruth the Moabitess comes from it into the line of David.
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A son of Lot. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 19:38.
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Son of Lot by his younger daughter (Genesis 19:38), father of the Ammonites east of the Jordan. Israel was forbidden to harass them (Deuteronomy 2:19), yet they warred with Israel from the Judges through Yiftach's day and into the days of Shaul, David and Yehoshafat.
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Son of Gidon by a concubine, who killed seventy of his brothers to make himself king over Shechem. He reigned three years before dying in the siege of Tevetz, struck by a millstone a woman dropped on him (Judges 9).
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A place in Palestine. The name stands 34 times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 21:14 and last at 2 Chronicles 30:5.
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A desert of Arabia. The name stands eleven times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 21:21 and last at Habakkuk 3:3.
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A Philistine. The name stands three times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 21:22 and last at Genesis 26:26.
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A hill in Palestine. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 22:2 and last at 2 Chronicles 3:1.
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Strong's records this name for a son of Nahor, and of an Israelite. The name stands three times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 22:21 and last at 1 Chronicles 5:14.
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Strong's records this name for a relative of Abraham, and of two Israelites. The name stands three times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 22:21 and last at 1 Chronicles 27:17.
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A relative of Abraham. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 22:22.
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A nephew of Abraham. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 22:22.
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A relative of Abraham. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 22:22.
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A Mesopotamian. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 22:22.
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Strong's records this name for a nephew of Abraham, and of a place in Palestine. The name stands ten times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 22:22 and last at 1 Chronicles 4:30.
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The second matriarch, chosen at the well of Charan for Yitzchak through his servant (Genesis 24). She bore twin sons, Esav and Yaakov, and arranged for Yaakov to receive Yitzchak's blessing in Esav's place (Genesis 25, 27).
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A Syrian woman. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 22:24.
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Strong's records this name for a Mesopotamian and of an Israelite. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 22:24.
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A son of Nahor. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 22:24.
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A relative of Abraham. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 22:24.
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Strong's records this name for a place in Syria, also of a Mesopotamian, of three Israelites, and of four Israelitesses and one Syrian woman. The name stands 23 times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 22:24 and last at 2 Chronicles 15:16.
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A place in Palestine. The name stands nine times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 23:2 and last at Nehemiah 11:25.
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Strong's records this name for a Canaanite and of two places in Palestine. The name stands 14 times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 23:8 and last at 2 Chronicles 13:19.
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Strong's records this name for a Hittite and of an Israelite. The name stands four times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 23:8 and last at Exodus 6:15.
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A place in Palestine. The name stands six times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 23:9 and last at Genesis 50:13.
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The name stands five times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 24:10 and last at 1 Chronicles 19:6.
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Father of Leah and Rachel and brother of Rivkah, who hosted Yaakov in Charan, gave him his daughters in marriage in exchange for fourteen years of labor, and pursued him when he later fled with his family and flocks (Genesis 24, 29-31). His name is also the ordinary Hebrew word for “white,” so the count includes both uses.
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A wife of Abraham. The name stands four times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:1 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:33.
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A son of Abraham by Keturah. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:2 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:32.
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An Arabian patriarch. The name stands four times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:2 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:32.
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A son of Abraham. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:2 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:32.
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A son of Avraham by Keturah (Genesis 25:2), and the desert people descended from him. Yosef was sold to Midianite traders; Moshe fled to Midian and married Tzipporah, daughter of its priest; and Gidon broke Midian's seven-year grip on Israel (Judges 6-8).
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A son of Abraham. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:2 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:32.
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A son of Abraham. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:2 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:32.
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A people descended from Dedan son of Yokshan, listed among the sons Avraham had by Keturah.
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A people descended from Dedan son of Yokshan, named beside the Ashurim and the Le'ummim in Avraham's Keturah line.
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An Arabian. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 25:3.
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Strong's records this name for a son of Midian, and of the region settled by him; also of an Israelite and of an Israelitess. The name stands five times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:4 and last at 1 Chronicles 2:47.
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Strong's records this name for an Arabian and of two Israelites. The name stands four times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:4 and last at 1 Chronicles 5:24.
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A son of Abraham by Keturah. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:4 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:33.
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A son of Midian. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:4 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:33.
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A son of Ismael, and the country settled by him. The name stands five times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:13 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:29.
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A son of Ishmael; also Bedouin. The name stands twelve times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:13 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:29.
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A son of Ishmael. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:13 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:29.
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Strong's records this name for an Ishmaelite and of an Israelite. The name stands three times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:13 and last at 1 Chronicles 4:25.
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Strong's records this name for a son of Ishmael, and of an Israelite. The name stands four times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:14 and last at 1 Chronicles 4:26.
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A son of Yishmael and the people and desert region called after him, in northern Arabia. Yeshayahu addresses one of his oracles to Dumah.
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A son of Ishmael. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:14 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:30.
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An Ishmaelite. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:15 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:30.
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A son of Ishmael, and the region settled by him. The name stands five times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:15 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:30.
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A son of Ishmael. The name stands three times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:15 and last at 1 Chronicles 5:19.
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A son of Ishmael, and his posterity. The name stands three times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:15 and last at 1 Chronicles 5:19.
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A son of Ishmael. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:15 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:31.
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A region of Syria. The name stands eleven times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 25:20 and last at Genesis 48:7.
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Elder twin son of Yitzchak and Rivkah, a skilled hunter who sold his birthright to his brother Yaakov for a bowl of stew and was later deprived of their father's blessing as well (Genesis 25, 27). Genesis 36 records him as the ancestor of Edom. This spelling is shared with an ordinary Hebrew word, so the count reflects more than one meaning.
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Third patriarch, younger twin of Yitzchak and Rivkah, who obtained the birthright and blessing from his brother Esav and, after wrestling through the night with a man at the Yabok, was renamed Yisrael (Genesis 25-32). He fathered twelve sons who became the tribes of Israel and, reunited with his son Yosef, settled his family in Egypt (Genesis 46-47). His name plays on the Hebrew word for “heel,” which the text itself notes at his birth (Genesis 25:26), so the count includes both uses.
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The by-name Esav earned when he sold his birthright for the red stew — “Give me some of that red, red stuff” (Genesis 25:30) — and the name of the nation and country descended from him, south-east of the Dead Sea. Genesis 36 records its chiefs and kings; Ovadyah's whole prophecy is addressed to it.
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The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 26:20.
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Strong's records this name for a well in Pal. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 26:21.
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A Philistine. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 26:26.
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A Canaanitess. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 26:34.
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Strong's records this name for a Hittite and of an Israelite. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 26:34 and last at Hosea 1:1.
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Strong's records this name for a wife of Esau, and of a daughter of Solomon. The name stands seven times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 26:34 and last at 1 Kings 4:15.
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Strong's records this name for a place in Palestine, and also of one Hittite, two Israelites. The name stands seven times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 26:34 and last at Judges 12:12.
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Strong's records this name for an Ishmaelitess and of an Israelitess. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 28:9 and last at 2 Chronicles 11:18.
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Strong's records this name for two places in Palestine. The name stands eight times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 28:19 and last at Judges 1:26.
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Yaakov's beloved wife, whom he served Lavan fourteen years to marry. Long barren, she bore Yosef and died giving birth to Binyamin, and was buried on the road to Efrat/Beit Lechem (Genesis 29-35).
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Yaakov's first wife, given to him by her father Lavan in place of Rachel through deception on the wedding night (Genesis 29). She bore Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Yehudah, Yissachar, Zevulun, and Dinah, and was buried in the Cave of Machpelah (Genesis 49:31).
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Leah's maidservant, given to Yaakov to bear children in Leah's place. She was the mother of Gad and Asher (Genesis 30).
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Rachel's maidservant, given to Yaakov to bear children in Rachel's place. She was the mother of Dan and Naftali (Genesis 30). This spelling is shared with an ordinary Hebrew word, so the count is not of her alone.
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Firstborn son of Yaakov and Leah, whose name the text connects to Leah's words that “the LORD has seen my affliction” (Genesis 29:32). He lost his birthright after lying with his father's concubine Bilhah (Genesis 35, 49), and his descendants became one of the twelve tribes.
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Second son of Yaakov and Leah, who with his brother Levi avenged the violation of their sister Dinah by killing the men of Shechem (Genesis 34). His descendants became one of the twelve tribes.
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Third son of Yaakov and Leah, whose descendants became the tribe set apart for the priesthood and the service of the Mishkan (Exodus, Numbers). With Shimon he avenged the violation of Dinah at Shechem (Genesis 34). His name plays on the Hebrew root for “joining,” used in Leah's own words at his birth (Genesis 29:34), so the count includes both uses.
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Fourth son of Yaakov and Leah, whose name Leah connected to praising God (Genesis 29:35). He proposed selling Yosef rather than killing him (Genesis 37), and his descendants became the tribe from which the line of kings, including David, descended (Genesis 49:10). This spelling is also an ordinary word built on the Hebrew root for praise or thanksgiving, so the count reflects both uses.
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Sixth son of Yaakov, born to Bilhah. Rachel named him for having “wrestled” with her sister and prevailed (Genesis 30:8), and his descendants became one of the twelve tribes.
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Seventh son of Yaakov, born to Zilpah. Leah named him at his birth exclaiming “Fortune!” (Genesis 30:11), and his descendants became one of the twelve tribes, settling east of the Jordan (Numbers 32). His name is also the ordinary Hebrew word for “fortune,” as Leah's own words show, so the count includes both uses.
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Eighth son of Yaakov, born to Zilpah, whom Leah named for her happiness (Genesis 30:13). His descendants became one of the twelve tribes. This spelling is also the Hebrew relative pronoun “which/who,” one of the most common words in the Tanakh, so the great majority of its occurrences are that word, not the tribe.
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Ninth son of Yaakov, born to Leah, whose name she connected to God having given her a “reward” for giving her maidservant to Yaakov (Genesis 30:18). His descendants became one of the twelve tribes.
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Tenth son of Yaakov, born to Leah, whose name she connected to her hope that Yaakov would now “dwell” with her (Genesis 30:20). His descendants became one of the twelve tribes.
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Daughter of Yaakov and Leah, violated by Shechem son of Chamor, whose city her brothers Shimon and Levi then destroyed in retribution (Genesis 34). This spelling is shared with an ordinary Hebrew word, so the count reflects more than her story alone.
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Yaakov's eleventh son and firstborn of Rachel, sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers out of jealousy over their father's favor and his dreams (Genesis 37). He rose to become viceroy of Egypt under Pharaoh, preserved his family through famine, and his descendants became the tribes of Efrayim and Menashe (Genesis 39-50). His name plays on the Hebrew verb “to add,” from Rachel's own words at his birth (Genesis 30:24), so the count includes both uses.
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A region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites. The name stands 134 times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 31:21 and last at 2 Chronicles 22:5.
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A memorial cairn East of the Jordan. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 31:47 and last at Genesis 31:48.
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Strong's records this name for two places in Palestine. The name stands 36 times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 31:49 and last at 2 Chronicles 16:6.
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A place in Palestine. The name stands 13 times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 32:3 and last at 1 Chronicles 6:65.
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A river east of the Jordan. The name stands seven times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 32:23 and last at Judges 11:22.
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The name given to Yaakov after he wrestled with a man at the Yabok until daybreak, explained in the text as meaning one who has “striven with God and with men and prevailed” (Genesis 32:25-29). It became the name of his descendants, the twelve tribes. This same spelling is used collectively for that later nation, so the count spans both the man and the people.
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A place East of Jordan; also the name of two Israelites. The name stands nine times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 32:31 and last at 1 Chronicles 8:25.
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Strong's records this name for a place in Egypt and of three in Palestine. The name stands 18 times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 33:17 and last at 2 Chronicles 4:17.
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A Canaanite. The name stands 13 times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 33:19 and last at Judges 9:28.
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A prophetess who judged Israel and, with her military commander Barak, defeated the Canaanite army of Yavin and Sisra. She and Barak together sang the victory song of Judges 5.
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A monumental tree. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 35:8.
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Another name for Bethlehem. The name stands ten times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 35:16 and last at 1 Chronicles 4:4.
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The original name of Benjamin. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 35:18.
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Yaakov's twelfth and youngest son, born to Rachel as she died. She named him with her last breath while Yaakov called him Binyamin, “son of the right hand” (Genesis 35:16-18). His descendants became one of the twelve tribes.
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A place in Palestine. The name stands 41 times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 35:19 and last at 2 Chronicles 11:6.
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A place in Palestine. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 35:21.
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A wife of Esau. The name stands eight times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:2 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:52.
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Strong's records this name for two Edomites and one Edomitess. The name stands twelve times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:2 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:41.
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An Idumaean. The name stands eight times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:2 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:40.
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Strong's records this name for one of Job's friends, and of a son of Esau. The name stands 15 times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:4 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:36.
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Strong's records this name for Moses' father-in-law, also of an Edomite and an Israelite. The name stands eleven times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:4 and last at 1 Chronicles 9:8.
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Strong's records this name for an Edomite and of a an Israelite. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:5 and last at Genesis 36:14.
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An Edomite. The name stands four times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:5 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:35.
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A Levite, cousin of Moshe and Aharon, who led a rebellion of 250 men against their leadership, challenging Moshe's authority and the exclusivity of Aharon's priesthood. The earth opened and swallowed him and his household, and the 250 men were consumed by fire (Numbers 16). This spelling is also the Hebrew word for “ice” or “frost,” so the count includes both uses.
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Strong's records this name for two Edomites, and of the region and descendant of one of them. The name stands eleven times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:11 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:53.
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A grandson of Esau. The name stands three times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:11 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:36.
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An Idumaean. The name stands three times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:11 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:36.
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An Edomite. The name stands three times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:11 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:36.
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Strong's records this name for an Edomite and of two Israelites. The name stands eleven times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:11 and last at 1 Chronicles 4:15.
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Strong's records this name for two Edomites. The name stands six times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:12 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:51.
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A grandson of Esav (Genesis 36:12) and the nation from him, the first to attack Israel after the sea — at Refidim, where Israel prevailed while Moshe's hands were held up (Exodus 17). Its memory is commanded to be blotted out, and Shaul lost the kingdom over Agag its king.
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Strong's records this name for an Edomite and of two Israelites. The name stands five times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:13 and last at 2 Chronicles 31:13.
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The younger of Tamar's twins by Yehudah, the one whose hand came out first with the scarlet thread and who was nevertheless born second (Genesis 38:30). The name also belongs to a son of Shimon, to Levites, and to the Ethiopian whose army Asa routed at Mareshah.
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Strong's records this name for an Edomite and four Israelites. The name stands seven times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:13 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:37.
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An Edomite. The name stands three times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:13 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:37.
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Strong's records this name for an Edomite and of four Israelites. The name stands seven times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:18 and last at 2 Chronicles 11:19.
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An Idumaean. The name stands seven times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:20 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:39.
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Strong's records this name for an Edomite and two Israelites. The name stands nine times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:20 and last at 1 Chronicles 4:2.
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Strong's records this name for two Edomites. The name stands seven times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:21 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:42.
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An Idumaean. The name stands five times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:21 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:42.
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An Edomite. The name stands five times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:21 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:38.
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Strong's records this name for two men. The name stands three times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:22 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:39.
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An Idumaean. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 36:22.
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An Idumaean. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:23 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:40.
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Strong's records this name for an Edomite and of a place in Moab. The name stands three times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:23 and last at 1 Chronicles 8:6.
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A mountain of Palestine. The name stands eight times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:23 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:40.
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An Idumaean. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:23 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:40.
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Strong's records this name for an Edomite and of an Israelite. The name stands four times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:23 and last at 1 Chronicles 2:28.
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Strong's records this name for two Israelites. The name stands six times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:24 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:40.
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An Idumaean. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Genesis 36:26.
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An Idumaean. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:26 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:41.
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Strong's records this name for an Edomite and of an Israelite. The name stands three times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:26 and last at 1 Chronicles 7:37.
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An aboriginal Idumaean. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 36:26 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:41.
See all 2 places it is named →Where these come from. Every name in the full list is a word our corpus tags as a proper noun in the Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology, grouped so that בית לחם counts as one name and not two. What each one is — a person, a place, a people — is read from the lexicon's own definition, and where that definition names two senses the row says so. The gematria is computed by the same engine that runs every search, and the count on each row is the number of verses that door opens — the same walk, counted once.