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ArchivesDid the name August/Augustus get mentioned in the Bible?
I would like to know that, please (as I plan on using names that aren't mentioned in the Bible).
Thank you in advance!
Lucille
Thank you in advance!
Lucille
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Personally I like names that will travel well. My children are Peter, Caroline and Beatrice, all good Christian names except that I haven't got a religious bone in my body and the same goes for my husband and kids. Beatrice has family significance, the others we just liked. And they feature in all the European languages/countries that we and the children are ever likely to visit, give or take a twitch to the pronunciation. If that means that their names feature in the Christian tradition, well that's tough. (Though I did avoid the charming name of two of my great-grandmothers: Christiana!)
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"And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed." Luke 2:1
I really don't know why you should have an aversion to using names that are mentioned in the Bible. There are a lot of lovely Bible names suitable for babies.
Names like...
Abaddon and Apollyon!
"And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." Revelations 9:11
Beelzebub!
"But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils." Matthew 12:24
Moloch and Remphan!
"Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon." Acts 7:43
Baal and Ashtaroth!
And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth." Judges 2:13
Belial!
"And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial." 2 Samuel 16:7
Dagon!
"Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice..." Judges 16:23
And last but not least... Nanaea!
"For when the leader was come into Persia, and the army with him that seemed invincible, they were slain in the temple of Nanaea by the deceit of Nanaea’s priests." II Maccabees 1:13
-- Nanaea
I really don't know why you should have an aversion to using names that are mentioned in the Bible. There are a lot of lovely Bible names suitable for babies.
Names like...
Abaddon and Apollyon!
"And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." Revelations 9:11
Beelzebub!
"But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils." Matthew 12:24
Moloch and Remphan!
"Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon." Acts 7:43
Baal and Ashtaroth!
And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth." Judges 2:13
Belial!
"And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial." 2 Samuel 16:7
Dagon!
"Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice..." Judges 16:23
And last but not least... Nanaea!
"For when the leader was come into Persia, and the army with him that seemed invincible, they were slain in the temple of Nanaea by the deceit of Nanaea’s priests." II Maccabees 1:13
-- Nanaea
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I'm an atheist. Therefore I'd like to give my future kids non-Christian and non-Biblical names.
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Well then, you'd better steer clear of most Hindu names, too. As well as some lovely names from Classical Greek & Roman legend -- many of which have some association with god(s), ya know. ;)
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:-P I'll use Germanic names, the names of my ancestors (my family is originally from Germany). :-P
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There are a whoooole lot of German saints' names you'll have to weed out then, not to mention names derived from the Teutonic pantheon...
Such a shame, that your rigidly-imposed criteria will limit a world of possibilities which would otherwise be open to you.
It's not too unlike what fundamentalist religious folk tend to do to themselves. ;)
-- Nanaea
Such a shame, that your rigidly-imposed criteria will limit a world of possibilities which would otherwise be open to you.
It's not too unlike what fundamentalist religious folk tend to do to themselves. ;)
-- Nanaea
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