List of biblical names starting with H
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See Bible Study Tools Library letter H or Christian Classics Ethereal Library letter H or Smith's Bible Dictionary letter H or Easton's Bible Dictionary letter H for additional definitions and Biblical sources. Most of the men's and women's biblical names can be found in Herbert Lockyer's books with a biblical source where in the bible they can be found.[1] Many also have a short study on the name.[1] Most of the Biblical name definitions for places, cities, countries, angels, gods, mountains and Hebrew names can be found in Nancy M. Tischler's two volume encyclopedia All things in the Bible, an encyclopedia of the biblical world with a short study on each of them.[2]
- Haahashtari, a runner[3]
- Habaiah, the hiding of the Lord[3]
- Habakkuk, he that embraces; a wrestler[3]
- Habazinaiah, a hiding of the shield of the Lord[3]
- Habor, a partaker; a companion[3]
- Hachaliah, who waits for the Lord[3]
- Hachilah, my hope is in her[3]
- Hachmoni, a wise man[3]
- Hadad, joy; noise; clamor[3]
- Hadadezer, beauty of assistance[3]
- Hadadrimmon, invocation to the god Rimmon[3]
- Hadar, power; greatness[3]
- Hadarezer, same as Hadadezer[3]
- Hadashah, news; a month[3]
- Hadassah, a myrtle; joy[3]
- Hadattah, new,[4][5] NEW HAZOR[6]
- Hades, see Hell (the grave or place of the dead),[7] “brought down to hell” (hades), i.e., simply to the lowest debasement,[8] descent of Christ into Hell, the death and burial of Jesus,[9] The adobe of departed spirits[10]
- Hadlai, loitering; hindering[3]
- Hadoram, their beauty; their power[3]
- Hadrach, point; joy of tenderness[3]
- Hagab, Hagabah, a grasshopper[3]
- Hagar, a stranger; one that fears[3]
- Haggai, feast; solemnity[3]
- Haggeri, Haggi, a stranger[3]
- Haggiah, the Lord's feast[3]
- Haggith, rejoicing[3]
- Hai, same as Ai = heap of ruins[11][12]
- Hakkatan, little[3]
- Hakkoz, a thorn; summer; an end[3]
- Hakupha, a commandment of the mouth[3]
- Halah, a moist table[3]
- Halak, part[3]
- Halhul, grief; looking for grief[3]
- Hali, sickness; a beginning; a precious stone[3]
- Hallelujah, praise Jah[3]
- Halloesh, saying nothing; an enchanter[3]
- Ham, son of Noah|Ham, hot; heat; brown[3]
- Haman, noise; tumult[3]
- Hamath, anger; heat; a wall[3]
- Hamath-zobah, the heat, or the wall, of an army[3]
- Hammedatha, he that troubles the law[3]
- Hammelech, a king; a counselor[3]
- Hammoleketh, the queen[13][14]
- Hammon, heat; the sun[3]
- Hamonah, his multitude; his uproar[3]
- Hamon-gog, the multitude of Gog[3]
- Hamor, an ass; clay; dirt[3]
- Hamoth, indignation[3]
- Hamul, godly; merciful[3]
- Hamutal, the shadow of his heat[3]
- Hanameel, the grace that comes from God; gift of God[3]
- Hanan, full of grace[3]
- Hananeel, grace, or gift, of God[3]
- Hanani, my grace; my mercy[3]
- Hananiah, grace; mercy; gift of the Lord[3]
- Hanes, banishment of grace[3]
- Haniel, the gift of God[3]
- Hannah, gracious; merciful; She that gives[3]
- Hannathon, the gift of grace[3]
- Hanniel, grace or mercy of God[3]
- Hanoch, dedicated[3]
- Hanun, gracious; merciful[3]
- Hapharaim, searching; digging[3]
- Hara, a hill; showing forth[3]
- Haradah, well of great fear[3]
- Haran, mountainous country[3]
- Harran, see Charran[3]
- Harbonah, his destruction; his sword[3]
- Hareph, winter; reproach[3]
- Harhas, anger; heat of confidence[3]
- Harhaiah, heat, or anger, of the Lord[3]
- Harhur, made warm[3]
- Harim, destroyed; dedicated to God[3]
- Harnepher, the anger of a bull; increasing heat[3]
- Harod, astonishment; fear[3]
- Harosheth, a forest; agriculture; workmanship; deafness; silence[3]
- Harsha, workmanship; a wood[3]
- Harum, high; throwing down[3]
- Harumaph, destruction[3]
- Haruphite, slender; sharp[3]
- Haruz, careful[3]
- Hasadiah, the mercy of the Lord[3]
- Hashabiah, the estimation of the Lord[3]
- Hashabnah, Hashabniah, the silence of the Lord[3]
- Hashem, named; a putting to; 'the name' [of God][3]
- Hashub, esteemed; numbered[3]
- Hashubah, estimation; thought[3]
- Hashum, silence; their hasting[3]
- Hashupha, spent; made base[3]
- Hasrah, wanting[3]
- Hatach, he that strikes[3]
- Hathath, fear[3]
- Hatita, a bending of sin[3]
- Hattil, howling for sin[3]
- Hattipha, robbery[3]
- Hattush, forsaking sin[3]
- Hauran, a hole; liberty; whiteness[3]
- Havilah, that suffers pain; that brings forth[3]
- Havoth-jair, the villages that enlighten[3]
- Hazael, that sees God[3]
- Hazaiah, seeing the Lord[3]
- Hazar-addar, an imprisoned generation[3]
- Hazarenan, imprisoned cloud[3]
- Hazargaddah, imprisoned band[3]
- Hazar-hatticon, middle village; preparation[3]
- Hazarmaveth, dwelling of death[3]
- Hazar-shual, a wolf's house[3]
- Hazar-susah, or susim, the hay-paunch of a horse[3]
- Hazelelponi, sorrow of countenance[3]
- Hazeroth, villages; palaces[3]
- Hazezon-tamar, drawing near to bitterness[3]
- Hazo, seeing; prophesying[3]
- Hazor, court; hay[3]
- Heber, one that passes; anger[3]
- Hebrews, descendants of Heber[3]
- Hebron, society; friendship[3]
- Hegai, or Hege, meditation; word; groaning; separation[3]
- Helam, their army; their trouble[3]
- Helbah, Helbon, milk, fatness[3]
- Heldai, Heleb, Heled, the world; rustiness[3]
- Helek, part; portion[3]
- Helem, dreaming; healing[3]
- Heleph, changing; passing over[3]
- Helez, armed; set free[3]
- Heli, ascending; climbing up[3]
- Helkai, same as Helek[3]
- Helkath-hazzurim, the field of strong men, or of rocks[3]
- Helon, window; grief[3]
- Heman, their trouble; tumult; much; in great number[3]
- Hen, grace; quiet; rest[3]
- Hena, troubling[3]
- Henadad, grace of the beloved[3]
- Henoch, same as Enoch[3]
- Hepher, a digger[3]
- Hephzibah, my delight is in her[3]
- Heres, the son; an earthen pot[3]
- Heresh, a carpenter[3]
- Hermas, Hermes, Mercury; gain; refuge[3]
- Hermogenes, begotten of Mercury[3]
- Hermon, anathema; devoted to destruction[3]
- Herod, son of a hero[3]
- Herodion, the song of Juno[3]
- Heshbon, invention; industry[3]
- Heshmon, a hasty messenger[3]
- Heth, trembling; fear[3]
- Hethlon, a fearful dwelling[3]
- Hezekiah, strength of the Lord[3]
- Hezer, Hezir, a bog; converted[3]
- Hezrai, an entry or vestibule[3]
- Hezron, the dart of joy; the division of the song[3]
- Hiddai, a praise; a cry[3]
- Hiel, God lives; the life of God[3]
- Hierapolis, holy city[3]
- Higgaion, meditation; consideration[3]
- Hilen, a window; grief[3]
- Hilkiah, God is my portion[3]
- Hillel, he that praises[3]
- Hinnom, there they are; their riches[3]
- Hirah, liberty; anger[3]
- Hiram, exaltation of life; a destroyer[3]
- Hittite, one who is broken; who fears[3]
- Hivites, wicked; wickedness[3]
- Hizkijah, the strength of the Lord[3]
- Hobab, favored; beloved[3]
- Hobah, love; friendship; secrecy[3]
- Hod, praise; confession[3]
- Hodaiah, the praise of the Lord[3]
- Hodaviah, Hodiah, Hodijah, same as Hodaiah[3]
- Hodesh, a table; news[3]
- Hoglah, his festival or dance[3]
- Hoham, woe to them[3]
- Holon, a window; grief[3]
- Homam, making an uproar[3]
- Hophin, he that covers; my fist[3]
- Hophra, biblical name of Pharaoh Apries[3]
- Hor, who conceives, or shows; a hill[3]
- Horeb, desert; solitude; destruction[3]
- Horem, an offering dedicated to God[3]
- Hor-hagidgad, the hill of felicity[3]
- Hori, a prince; freeborn[3]
- Horims, princes; being angry[3]
- Hormah, devoted or consecrated to God; utter destruction[3]
- Horonaim, angers; ragings[3]
- Horonites, men of anger, or of fury, or of liberty[3]
- Hosah, trusting[3]
- Hosanna, save I pray thee; keep; preserve[3]
- Hosea, Hoshea, savior; safety[3]
- Hoshaiah, the salvation of the Lord[3]
- Hoshama, heard; he obeys[3]
- Hotham), a seal[3]
- Hothir, excelling; remaining[3]
- Hukkok, engraver; scribe; lawyer[3]
- Hul, pain; infirmity[3]
- Huldah, the world[3]
- Hupham, their chamber; their bank[3]
- Huppim, a chamber covered; the sea-shore[3]
- Hur, liberty; whiteness; hole[3]
- Huram, their liberty; their whiteness; their hole[3]
- Huri, being angry; or same as Huram[3]
- Hushah, hasting; holding peace[3]
- Hushai, their haste; their sensuality; their silence[3]
- Hushathite, Hushim, man of haste, or of silence[3]
- Huz, counsel; woods; fastened[3]
- Huzoth, streets; populous[3]
- Huzzab, molten[3]
- Hymeneus, nuptial; the god of marriage[3]
References
- 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lockyer references
- ↑ Tischler reference
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- ↑ Smith's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Easton's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Nave's Topical Bible
- ↑ Smith's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Easton's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious
- ↑ New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious
- ↑ Smith's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Easton's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Smith's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Easton's Bible Dictionary