List of biblical names starting with D
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This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with D in English transcription, both toponyms and personal names. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External links. For links to more specific lists (places, personal names, women, OT, NT, animals and plants, etc.), go to List of biblical names: See also.
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D
[edit]- Dabareh
- Dabbasheth
- Daberath
- Dan
- Dalaiah, variant spelling of Delaiah[1]
- Dalmanutha
- Dalmatia
- Dalphon
- Damaris
- Damascus
- Damien
- Danaja
- Dan
- Daniel, God is my judge [2]
- Dannah
- Dara, misspelling of Darda[3]
- Darda, a pearl of wisdom[4]
- Darius, he that informs himself of a king[4]
- Darkon, bearer or scattering[4] possibly related to Aramaic terms for hasten or shield[5]
- Dathan, belonging to law[4]
- David, beloved[4]
- Debir, speaker[6]
- Deborah, bee
- Decapolis
- Dedan, low, their friendship[6]
- Dedanim
- Dekar, lance bearer, perforation[6]
- Delaiah, Jehovah is deliverer[6]
- Delilah, Samson's mistress[7] languishing[8]
- Demas, ruler of people[6]
- Demetrius
- Derbe
- Deuel
- Deuteronomy
- Diana
- Diblaim
- Diblah
- Diblath
- Dibon
- Dibon-gad
- Dibri
- Didymus
- Diklah
- Dilean,
- Dimon
- Dimonah
- Dinah
- Dinhabah
- Dionysius
- Diotrephes
- Dishan
- Dishon
- Dizahab
- Dodai,
- Dodavah
- Dodo
- Doeg
- Dophkah
- Dor
- Dorcas
- Dothan
- Drusilla
- Dumah
- Dura
References
[edit]- Comay, Joan, Who's Who in the Old Testament, Oxford University Press, 1971, ISBN 0-19-521029-8
- Lockyer, Herbert, All the men of the Bible, Zondervan Publishing House (Grand Rapids, Michigan), 1958
- Lockyer, Herbert, All the women of the Bible, Zondervan Publishing 1988, ISBN 0-310-28151-2
- Lockyer, Herbert, All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible, Zondervan Publishing 1988, ISBN 0-310-28041-9
- Tischler, Nancy M., All things in the Bible: an encyclopedia of the biblical world , Greenwood Publishing, Westport, Conn. : 2006 ISBN 0-313-33082-4
Inline references
[edit]- ^ Where the King James Version has "Dalaiah" in 1 Chronicles 3:24, the Revised Version has Delaiah. See T. K. Cheyne; J. Sutherland Black, eds. (1901) [1899]. "Dalaiah". Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political, and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible. Vol. 1, A–D. New York: The Macmillan Company.
- ^ https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Daniel.html
- ^ T. K. Cheyne; J. Sutherland Black, eds. (1901) [1899]. "Darda". Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political, and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible. Vol. 1, A–D. New York: The Macmillan Company.
- ^ a b c d e Lockyer 1958, p. 89
- ^ T. K. Cheyne; J. Sutherland Black, eds. (1901) [1899]. "Darkon". Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political, and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible. Vol. 1, A–D. New York: The Macmillan Company.
- ^ a b c d e Lockyer 1958, p. 91
- ^ Nave's Topical Bible
- ^ Easton's Bible Dictionary