I wonder if anyone has ever been named Jehovah? Because that would really be funny.
Witnesses And Their Obsession With Bible Names
by ColdRedRain 22 Replies latest jw friends
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KD
My parents were never JW's, but before I was born, my mother wanted to call me Zedekiah. They settled on Kenneth. Last Saturday I did see a political campaign sign for a man whose first name is Festus!!
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IronGland
"I mean, who the hell outside of a Witness would name their child "Ephriam" or "Hezekiah" or "Elijah"?
The Amish. Appropriate. They live in the same century. At least the Amish are decent enough to admit it.
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Prisca
My mother chose my name, Priscilla, from the Bible. Had I been a boy, I would have been called James/Jim, for family reasons, although James is also a Bible name.
I have also met a girl who was called Keturah.
I've also noticed that JWs tend to use the Bible spelling of Rebekah, rather than the Anglicised version, Rebecca.
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plmkrzy
Bible Names of US Presidents and their wives
John
Thomas
James
Andrew
Abraham
Benjamin
Martha
Abigail
Elizabeth
Rachel
Hannah
Sarah
Anna
Mary
Claudia
Maybe the problem is not Bible Names but Not Well-Known Bible Names
Adam but not Abel
Seth but not Cain ******************** no one in my family with this name
Isaac but no Ishmael
Jacob but not Esau
Joseph but not Levi
Dinah but not Keturah
Leah but not Hagar What about Sammy Hagar?
Joshua but not Moses
Miriam but not Zipporah
Nathan but not Solomon
David but not Rehoboam
Michael but not Jesus
Eve but Ephah
Daniel but not Shadrach
Yep that just about covers my families history of obsessing with bible names but you left our
Ezra
Racheal
Peter
Jeramiah
Ruth
Mary
and more that I can't remember now.
Not from the Bible, but from my relatives.
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Beck_Melbourne
Some JW folk I knew named their kids:
Israel - had a nice sound to it
Nation - nah, didn't like this one
Isaiah - nah, didn't like this one either
Reuben - nice but not unique
Cain - same as above
Ishmael - nah, don't like this at all
I can't remember the rest. But it was very trendy for JW to name their kids with a bible name in the 80's but by the 90's the trend switched to the most DIFFERENT names they could find. JW are very competitive with each other.
~Beck~
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joannadandy
Hmmm...the parents in my Hall all had hippie names for their kids.
Family one: Cherry Blossom, Keegan, Brandy Rose, Rieland, Autum Rae, Lilly (please note tremendous amount of children)
Family two: Named all their kids after gun slingers. (I wish I was making this up. 7 kids in that clan)
Family: Rocks. They named their kids after rocks! (Jade, Amber, Cole)
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plmkrzy
Reuben - nice but not unique
OMG How could I have forgotton my uncle Ruben. shame on me. But he isn't a JW he is a Mormon Rev. HAhahaha.
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GentlyFeral
I once knew a charming little (JW) girl who rejoiced in the name Bathsheba Van Roekel. Her parents were very good to us -- took us in when we got rooked by a prospective landlord, and let us live with them for a solid year till we got back on our feet.
They left long before we did. We lost touch with them, still being good dubbies then. Bathsheba would be in her mid-twenties now.
GentlyFeral
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gumby
You guys think the dubs are bad with names..( and they are).....how about the damn Mormons?
Moroni, brigham, and all those other funky non biblical names.
I'm a liitle sensative about this subject because.....you see....my real name is Onan.(he's the damn guy who spilled his semen on the ground in the bible. ewwwwwwwwww!