Abraham “Father of the multitude”
Absolom “Father of peace”
Ahaziah “Yah has grasped”
Almond “walking”
Amaziah “Yah is strong”
Amen “truth”
Amon “reliable”
Anakim “people of the neck”
Antimony- used for eye shadow
Apollos “fervent in spirit”
Apostle “to send off” Greek
Ashdod “fortress?”
Azariah “Yah has helped”
Balaam “the clan brings forth?”
Behemoth “dumb beast”
Bel “he who possesses”
Benaiah “Yah has built”
Bethlehem “house of bread”
Beth-shan “house of safety”
Beth-shemesh “house of the seen”
Cherubim “winged creature with a human face”
Dead sea “Admah, Gomorrah, Sodam, Zeboim, and Zoar”
Edom “the red region”
Eli “exalted”
Elihu “he is my god”
Elijah, Elias “Yah is God”
Eliphaz “God crushes”
Elisha “God is salvation”
Emmaus “warm wells” Greek
Ephesians “the dividing wall of hostility”
Ethiopia “Cush”
Ezekiel “God strengthens”
Ezra, Ezrah “Yahweh helps”
Gilgal “circle of stones”
Golgotha “skull”
Halacha “that which is current”
Isaac “he laughs”
Isaiah “Yahweh is salvation”
Ishmael “may God hear”
Israel “he who striveth with God,” or “God striveth”
Jacob “he overreaches”
Jehoahaz “Yah has grasped”
Jehoshaphat “Yah judges”
Jehovah “Adonai”
Jehu “he is Yah”
Jephthah “he opens”
Jeremiah “may Yah lift up”
Jerusalem “foundation of Shalem”
Joab “Yah is father”
Joash, Jehoash “Yah gives”
Joel “Yah is God”
Jonah, Jonas “dove”
Jonathan “Yah has given”
Joppa, Japho “beautiful”
Joram, Jehoram “Yah is high”
Joshua, Jeshua “Yah is salvation”
Josiah “let Yah give”
Jotham “may Yah complete”
Judas “one-way peephole” from AHD, see “wilderness of Judea”, E part
Kadmonites “easterners”
Kenites “belonging to the smiths”
Kerioth “cities”
Lebanon “white”
Leviathan “coiled one”
Libertines, Freedmen “freedmen” Latin
Lizard “clinger”

Locusts: (9 different names)

1. Arbeh “locusts” brought from the east, and sent back to the Red sea
2. Sal’am “bald locust” or “rock locust” occurs once
3. Chargol “katydid” vernacular origin
4. Chagab “grasshopper”
5. Gazam “palmerworm” referring to butterflies and moths
6. Yelek “cankerworm” or “caterpillar” “creature that licks up the grass”
7. Tzelatzal “ a tinkling” “creature able to produce sounds”
8. Gob “grasshoppers”
9. Chasil “larval stage”

Lucifer, Day Star “light bringer” Latin
Luke “the beloved physician”
Maccabees “hammer”
Magi “sorcerer”
Malachi “my messenger”
Manasseh “one who causes to forget”
Manna “what is that”
Mark “You are the Christ”
Matthew “gift of Yah”
Melchizedek “King of righteousness”
Messiah, Messias “the Anointed”
Micah “who is like Yah?”
Michael “who is like God?”
Mizpah, Mizpeh “watchtower”
Moth “consumer”
Naaman “pleasantness”
Nain “pleasant”
Nathan “gift”
Nazareth “watchtower”
Nazirites “one consecrated”
Nehemiah “Yah has comforted”
Nicodemus “conqueror of the people” Greek
Nile “dark” or “blue”, “Shihor or the black stream”, “the river”
Omri “worshiper of Yah”
Peter “rock”
Pharaoh “the great house” Egyptian
Pharisees “separated”
Philip “lover of horses” Greek
Philistines “People of the Sea”
Rahab “wide, broad”; mythological dragon or palindrome?
Rechab, Rechabites “rider?”
Rephaim “the dead” pre-Israeli people imputed to be giants

Sabbath “cessation” ceded, see root ked- ceded, Hyades*

Samson “son’s man”
Sargon “the King is legitimate”
Satyrs “hairy ones”
Shalmaneser “Salmanu is leader”
Sharon, Saron “plain or level country”
Shelah, Siloah “pool of the aqueduct”
Shema “hear” , see semites
Simon “[the deity] has heard”
Sion, see Zion
Solomon “peaceful”
Stephen “crown” Greek
Timothy “one who honors God”
Uzziah “Yah is my might”
Zechariah, Zachariah, Zacharias, Zecher, Zacher “Yah has remembered”
Zedekiah, Zidkijah “Yah is my righteousness”
Zephaniah “Yah has sheltered”
Zerubbabel “scion of Babylon” Akkad.
Zion, Sion “fortified hill or lump?”
Zoan “per-Ramses”