Dictionary (A)

Definitions of names and terms found in the Bible

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Aaron - a teacher; lofty; mountain of strength
Abaddon - the destroyer
Abagtha - father of the wine-press
Abana - made of stone; a building
Abarim - passages; passengers
Abba - father
Abda - a servant; servitude
Abdeel - a vapor; a cloud of God
Abdi - my servant
Abdiel - servant of God
Abdon - servant; cloud of judgment
Abednego - servant of light; shining
Abel - vanity; breath; vapor
Abel - a city; mourning
Abel-beth-maachah - mourning to the house of Maachah
Abel-maim - mourning of waters
Abel-meholah - mourning of sickness
Abel-mizraim - the mourning of Egyptians
Abel-shittim - mourning of thorns
Abez - an egg; muddy
Abi - my father
Abi-albon - most intelligent father
Abiah - the Lord is my father
Abiasaph - consuming father; gathering
Abiathar - excellent father; father of the remnant
Abib - green fruit; ears of corn
Abidah - father of knowledge
Abidan - father of judgment
Abiel - God my father
Abiezer - father of help
Abigail - the father's joy
Abihail - the father of strength
Abihu - he is my father
Abihud - father of praise; confession
Abijah - the Lord is my father
Abijam - father of the sea
Abilene - the father of mourning
Abimael - a father sent from God
Abimelech - father of the king
Abinadab - father of a vow, or of willingness
Abinoam - father of beauty
Abiram - high father; father of deceit
Abishag - ignorance of the father
Abishai - the present of my father
Abishalom - father of peace
Abishua - father of salvation
Abishur - father of the wall; father of uprightness
Abital - the father of the dew; or of the shadow
Abitub - father of goodness
Abiud - father of praise
Abner - father of light
Abraham - father of a great multitude
Abram - high father
Absalom - father of peace
Accad - a vessel; pitcher; spark
Accho - close; pressed together
Aceldama - field of blood
Achab - brother of the father
Achaia - grief; trouble
Achaicus - a native of Achaia; sorrowing; sad
Achan - or Achar, he that troubleth
Achaz - one that takes, or possesses
Achbor - a rat; bruising
Achim - preparing; revenging; confirming
Achish - thus it is; how is this
Achmetha - brother of death
Achor - trouble
Achsah - adorned; bursting the veil
Achshaph - poison; tricks
Achzib - liar; lying; one that runs
Adadah - testimony of the assembly
Adah - an assembly
Adaiah - the witness of the Lord
Adaliah - one that draws water; poverty; cloud; death
Adam - earthy; red
Adamah - red earth; of blood
Adami - my man; red; earthy; human
Adar - high; eminent
Adbeel - vapor, or cloud of God
Addi - my witness; adorned; prey
Addin - adorned; delicious; voluptuous
Addon - basis; foundation; the Lord
Adiel - the witness of the Lord
Adin - Adina, adorned; voluptuous; dainty
Adithaim - assemblies; testimonies
Adlai - my witness; my ornament
Admah - earthy; red; bloody
Admatha - a cloud of death; a mortal vapor
Adna - pleasure; delight
Adnah - eternal rest
Adoni-bezek - the lightning of the Lord; the Lord of lightning
Adoni-zedek - justice of the Lord; lord of justice
Adonijah - the Lord is my master
Adonikam - the Lord is raised
Adoniram - my Lord is most high; Lord of might and elevation
Adoraim - strength of the sea
Adoram - their beauty; their power
Adrammelech - the cloak, glory, grandeur or power of the king
Adramyttium - the court of death
Adriel - the flock of God
Adullam - their testimony; their prey; their ornament
Adummim - earthy; red; bloody things
Aeneas - praised; praiseworthy
Aenon - a cloud; fountain; his eye
Agabus - a locust; the father's joy or feast
Agag - roof; upper floor
Agar - or Hagar, a stranger; one that fears
Agee - a valley; deepness
Agrippa - one who causes great pain at his birth
Agur - stranger; gathered together
Ahab - uncle, or father's brother
Aharah - a smiling brother; a meadow of a sweet savor
Aharhel - another host; the last sorrow; a brother's sheep
Ahasbai - trusting in me; a grown-up brother
Ahasuerus - prince; head; chief
Ahava - essence; being; generation
Ahaz - one that takes or possesses
Ahaziah - seizure; vision of the Lord
Ahi - my brother; my brethren
Ahiah - brother of the Lord
Ahiam - mother's brother; brother of a nation
Ahian - brother of wine
Ahiezer - brother of assistance
Ahihud - brother of vanity, or of darkness, or of joy, or o
Ahijah - same with Ahiah
Ahikam - a brother who raises up or avenges
Ahilud - a brother born, or begotten
Ahimaaz - a brother of the council
Ahiman - brother of the right hand
Ahimelech - my brother is a king; my king's brother
Ahimoth - brother of death
Ahinadab - a willing brother; brother of a vow
Ahinoam - beauty of the brother; brother of motion
Ahio - his brother; his brethren
Ahira - brother of iniquity; brother of the shepherd
Ahiram - brother of craft, or of protection
Ahisamach - brother of strength
Ahishahur - brother of the morning or dew; brother of blacknes
Ahishar - brother of a prince; brother of a song
Ahithophel - brother of ruin or folly
Ahitub - brother of goodness
Ahlab - made of milk, or of fat; brother of the heart
Ahlai - beseeching; sorrowing; expecting
Ahoah - a live brother; my thorn or thistle
Aholah - his tabernacle; his tent
Aholiab - the tent of the father
Aholibah - my tent, or my tabernacle, in her
Aholibamah - my tabernacle is exalted
Ahumai - a meadow of waters; a brother of waters
Ahuzam - their taking or possessing vision
Ahuzzah - possession; seizing; collecting
Ai - or Hai, mass; heap
Aiah - vulture, raven; an isle; alas, where is it?
Aiath - same as Ai; an hour; eye; fountain
Aijeleth-Shahar - the land of the morning
Ain - same as Aiath
Ajalon - a chain; strength; a stag
Akkub - foot-print; supplanting; crookedness; lewdness
Akrabbim - scorpions
Alammelech - God is king
Alemeth - hiding; youth; worlds; upon the dead
Alexander - one who assists men
Alian - high
Alleluia - praise the Lord
Allon - an oak; strong
Allon-bachuth - the oak of weeping
Almodad - measure of God
Almon - hidden
Almon-diblathaim - hidden in a cluster of fig trees
Alpheus - a thousand; learned; chief
Alush - mingling together
Alvah - his rising up; his highness
Amad - people of witness; a prey
Amal - labor; iniquity
Amalek - a people that licks up
Aman - mother; fear of them
Amana - integrity; truth; a nurse
Amariah - the Lord says; the integrity of the Lord
Amasa - sparing the people
Amasai - strong
Amashai - the people's gift
Amashi-ali - same as Amaziah
Amaziah - the strength of the Lord
Ami - mother; fear; people
Aminadab - same as Amminadab
Amittai - true; fearing
Ammah - my, or his, people
Ammi - same as Ammah
Ammi-nadab - my people is liberal
Ammiel - the people of God
Ammihud - people of praise
Ammishaddai - the people of the Almighty; the Almighty is with m
Ammizabad - dowry of the people
Ammon - a people; the son of my people
Amnon - faithful and true; tutor
Amok - a valley; a depth
Amon - faithful; true
Amorite - bitter; a rebel; a babbler
Amos - loading; weighty
Amoz - strong; robust
Amplias - large; extensive
Amram - an exalted people; their sheaves; handfuls of corn
Amraphel - one that speaks of secrets
Amzi - strong, mighty
Anab - a grape; a knot
Anah - one who answers; afflicted
Anaharath - dryness, burning, wrath
Anak - a collar; ornament
Anamim - a fountain; answer; affliction
Anammelech - answer; poverty of the king
Anani - a cloud; prophecy; divination
Ananias - or Ananiah, the cloud of the Lord
Anathema - separated; set apart
Anathoth - or Anath, answer; song; poverty
Andrew - a strong man
Andronicus - a man excelling others
Anem - or Anen, an answer; their affliction
Aner - answer; song; affliction
Aniam - a people; the strength or sorrow of people
Anim - answerings; singings; afflicted
Anna - gracious; one who gives
Annas - one who answers; humble
Antichrist - an adversary to Christ
Antioch - speedy as a chariot
Antipas - for all, or against all
Antipatris - for, or against the father
Antothijah - answers or songs of the Lord; afflictions
Anub - same as Anab
Apelles - exclusion; separation
Apharsathchites - Apharsites (from a root meaning) dividing or rendi
Aphek - Aphekah, Aphik, strength; a rapid torrent
Aphiah - speaking, blowing
Apocalypse - uncovering, revelation
Apocrypha - hidden
Apollonia - perdition, destruction
Apollonius - destroying
Apollos - one who destroys; destroyer
Apollyon - a destroyer
Appaim - face; nostrils
Apphia - productive; fruitful
Aquila - an eagle
Ar - awakening; uncovering
Ara - cursing; seeing
Arab - multiplying; sowing sedition; a window; a locust
Arabia - evening; desert; ravens
Arad - a wild ass; a dragon
Arah - the way; a traveler
Aram - highness, magnificence, one that deceives; curse
Aran - an ark; their curse
Ararat - the curse of trembling
Araunah - ark; song; joyful cry
Arba - four
Archelaus - the prince of the people
Archippus - a master of horses
Arcturus - a gathering together
Ard - one that commands; he that descends
Ardon - ruling; a judgment of malediction
Areli - the light or vision of God
Areopagus - the hill of Mars
Aretas - agreeable, virtuous
Argob - a turf, or fat land
Ariel - altar; light or lion of God
Arimathea - a lion dead to the Lord
Arioch - long; great; tall
Aristarchus - the best prince
Aristobulus - a good counselor
Armageddon - hill of fruits; mountain of Megiddo
Arnon - rejoicing; sunlight
Aroer - heath; tamarisk
Arpad - the light of redemption
Arphaxad - a healer; a releaser
Artaxerxes - the silence of light; fervent to spoil
Artemas - whole, sound
Arumah - high; exalted
Asa - physician; cure
Asahel - creature of God
Asaiah - the Lord hath wrought
Asaph - who gathers together
Asareel - the beatitude of God
Asenath - peril; misfortune
Ashan - smoke
Ashbel - an old fire
Ashdod - effusion; inclination; theft
Asher - happiness
Ashima - crime; offense
Ashkenaz - a fire that spreads
Ashnah - change
Ashriel - same as Asareel
Ashtaroth - Ashtoreth, flocks; sheep; riches
Ashur - who is happy; or walks; or looks
Asia - muddy; boggy
Asiel - the work of God
Askelon - weight; balance; fire of infamy
Asnapper - unhappiness; increase of danger
Asriel - help of God
Asshurim - liers in want; beholders
Assir - prisoner; fettered
Assos - approaching; coming near
Assur - same as Ashur
Assyria - country of Assur or Ashur
Asuppim - gatherings
Asyncritus - incomparable
Atad - a thorn
Atarah - a crown
Ataroth - crowns
Ataroth-addar - crowns of power
Ater - left hand; shut
Athach - thy time
Athaiah - the Lord's time
Athaliah - the time of the Lord
Athlai - my hour or time
Attai - same as Athlai
Attalia - that increases or sends
Attalus - increased, nourished
Augustus - increased, augmented
Ava - or Ivah, iniquity
Aven - iniquity; force; riches; sorrow
Avim - wicked or perverse men
Avith - wicked, perverse
Azaliah - near the Lord
Azaniah - hearing the Lord; the Lord's weapons
Azareel - help of God
Azariah - he that hears the Lord
Azaz - strong one
Azazel - the scape-goat
Azaziah - strength of the Lord
Azekah - strength of walls
Azgad - a strong army; a gang of robbers
Azmaveth - strong death; a he-goat
Azmon - bone of a bone; our strength
Aznoth-tabor - the ears of Tabor; the ears of purity or contritio
Azor - a helper; a court
Azotus - the same as Ashdod
Azriel - same as Asriel
Azrikam - help, revenging
Azubah - forsaken
Azur - he that assists or is assisted
Azzan - their strength
Azzur - same as Azur