Biblical Names and their Meanings
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Group |
Description |
Reference |
| Raamah | trembling, poetically for a horse's mane | Genesis 10:7 |
| Raamiah | thunder, trembling of God | Nehemiah 7:7 |
| Raamses | child of the sun, same as Rameses | Exodus 1:11 |
| Rabbah | great | Joshua 13:25 |
| Rabbath | great, same as Rabbah | Deuteronomy 3:11 |
| Rabbi | my master | Matthew 23:7 |
| Rabbith | multitude | Joshua 19:20 |
| Rabboni | master | John 20:16 |
| Rabmag | foreign word for magician | Jeremiah 39:3 |
| Rabsaris | foreign word for chief chamberlain | 2 Kings 18:17 |
| Rabshakeh | chief cupbearer | 2 Kings 18:17 |
| Raca | worthless, empty headed man | Matthew 5:22 |
| Rachab | wide, same as Rahab | Matthew 1:5 |
| Rachal | traffic, trade | 1 Samuel 30:29 |
| Rachel | ewe , same as Rahel | Genesis 29:6 |
| Raddai | subduing, trampling | 1 Chronicles 2:14 |
| Ragau | friend (of God), same as Reu | Luke 3:35 |
| Raguel | friend of God, same as Reuel | Numbers 10:29 |
| Rahab | proud, insolence, different word from Joshua 2:1 | Psalm 87:4 |
| Rahab | wide, same as Rachab | Joshua 2:1 |
| Raham | belly | 1 Chronicles 2:44 |
| Rahel | ewe, same as Rachel | Jeremiah 31:15 |
| Rakem | flower garden, variegated, same as Rekem | 1 Chronicles 7:16 |
| Rakkath | shore | Joshua 19:35 |
| Rakkon | thinness | Joshua 19:46 |
| Ram | elevated, high | Ruth 4:19 |
| Rama | a hill, same as Ramah | Matthew 2:18 |
| Ramah | hill | Joshua 18:25 |
| Ramath | hill, same as Ramah | Joshua 19:8 |
| Ramathaimzophim | double height of the watchers | 1 Samuel 1:1 |
| Ramathite | inhabitant of Ramah | 1 Chronicles 27:27 |
| Ramathlehi | elevation of a jawbone | Judges 15:17 |
| Ramathmizpeh | height of the watch tower | Joshua 13:26 |
| Rameses | child of the sun, same as Raamses | Genesis 47:11 |
| Ramiah | whom God sets free | Ezra 10:25 |
| Ramoth | high places | Deuteronomy 4:43 |
| Ramothgilead | rocky region, same as Gilead | 1 Kings 4:13 |
| Rapha | tall | 1 Chronicles 8:2 |
| Raphu | healed | Numbers 13:9 |
| Reaia | whom God cares for, God has seen | 1 Chronicles 5:5 |
| Reaiah | same as Reaia | 1 Chronicles 4:2 |
| Reba | four | Numbers 31:8 |
| Rebecca | same as Rebekah | Romans 9:10 |
| Rebekah | a rope with a noose, ensnarer | Genesis 22:23 |
| Rechab | horseman, rider | 2 Samuel 4:2 |
| Rechabites | same as Rechah | Jeremiah 35:2 |
| Rechah | softness, delicate | 1 Chronicles 4:12 |
| Reelaiah | whom God makes to tremble | Ezra 2:2 |
| Regem | friend | 1 Chronicles 2:47 |
| Regemmelech | friend of the king | Zechariah 7:2 |
| Rehabiah | for whom God makes ample space | 1 Chronicles 23:17 |
| Rehob | open place | Numbers 13:21 |
| Rehoboam | who enlarges the people | 1 Kings 11:43 |
| Rehoboth | wide spaces, streets | Genesis 10:11 |
| Rehum | merciful, beloved | Ezra 2:2 |
| Rei | friendly | 1 Kings 1:8 |
| Rekem | flower garden, variegated, same as Rakem | Numbers 31:8 |
| Remaliah | whom God adorned, whom God protects | 2 Kings 15:25 |
| Remeth | a high place | Joshua 19:21 |
| Remmon | pomegranate, same as Rimmon | Joshua 19:7 |
| Remmonmethoar | same as Remmon | Joshua 19:13 |
| Remphan | incorrect transliteration of a Hebrew word which means an image, a pillar | Acts 7:43 |
| Rephael | whom God healed | 1 Chronicles 26:7 |
| Rephah | riches, to support | 1 Chronicles 7:25 |
| Rephaiah | whom God healed | 1 Chronicles 3:21 |
| Rephaims | giants | Genesis 14:5 |
| Rephidim | supports, places of rest | Exodus 17:1 |
| Resen | a bridle | Genesis 10:12 |
| Resheph | a flame | 1 Chronicles 7:25 |
| Reu | friend (of God), same as Ragau | Genesis 11:18 |
| Reuben | behold a son | Genesis 29:32 |
| Reubenite | descendant of Reuben | Numbers 26:7 |
| Reuel | friend of God, same as Raguel | Genesis 36:4 |
| Reumah | exalted, elevated | Genesis 22:24 |
| Rezeph | a hot stone | 2 Kings 19:12 |
| Rezia | delight | 1 Chronicles 7:39 |
| Rezin | stable, firm | 2 Kings 15:37 |
| Rezon | prince | 1 Kings 11:23 |
| Rhegium | rupture, breach | Acts 28:13 |
| Rhesa | head | Luke 3:27 |
| Rhoda | a rose | Acts 12:13 |
| Rhodes | rosy | Acts 21:1 |
| Ribai | whose cause God pleads | 2 Samuel 23:29 |
| Riblah | fertility | Numbers 34:11 |
| Rimmon | pomegranate, same as Remmon | Joshua 15:32 |
| Rimmonparez | pomegranate of the breach | Numbers 33:19 |
| Rinnah | shouting for joy | 1 Chronicles 4:20 |
| Riphath | spoken | Genesis 10:3 |
| Rissah | watering, fall of dew | Numbers 33:21-22 |
| Rithmah | heath, perhaps juniper or genista (broom plant)? | Numbers 33:18-19 |
| Rizpah | a baking stone, pavement | 2 Samuel 3:7 |
| Roboam | same as Rehoboam | Matthew 1:7 |
| Rodanim | RSV, ASV, JPS for KJV "Dodanim", leaders | 1 Chronicles 1:7 |
| Rogelim | place of fullers | 2 Samuel 17:27 |
| Rohgah | outcry | 1 Chronicles 7:34 |
| Romamtiezer | whose help I have exalted | 1 Chronicles 25:4 |
| Roman | strong | John 11:48 |
| Rome | strength, power, named after Romulus | Acts 2:10 |
| Rosh | the head | Genesis 46:21 |
| Rufus | red | Mark 15:21 |
| Ruhamah | having obtained mercy | Hosea 2:1 |
| Rumah | exalted, high | 2 Kings 23:36 |
| Ruth | friend | Ruth 1:4 |