Children were Named

22 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

7 sections

After Relatives

Luke 1:59 On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.
Luke 1:61 They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who bears this name.”

Genesis 25:25–26 The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau. …
Genesis 35:18 And with her last breath— for she was dying— she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.
1 Chronicles 4:9 Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”

Genesis 21:3 And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.
Genesis 21:6 Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
Genesis 18:13 And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really bear a child when I am old?’
Exodus 2:10 When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
Exodus 18:3–4 along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.” …

Psalm 115:14 May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children.
Psalm 127:4–5 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth. …

Isaiah 8:3 And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Hosea 1:4 Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
Hosea 1:6 Gomer again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them.
Hosea 1:9 And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.

2 Kings 10:1 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:
1 Chronicles 4:27 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, so their whole clan did not become as numerous as the sons of Judah.

Genesis 15:3 Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
Genesis 15:6 Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
Genesis 17:17 Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
Luke 1:18 “How can I be sure of this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”