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Lord: Compound Names

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Lord: Compound Names
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Donald W. Parry, “Lord: Compound Names,” in The Jesus Christ Focused Old Testament: Making Sense of a Monumental Book (Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central, 2022).

Theophoric names are compound names that include a name of God together with one of His attributes, characteristics, or qualities. Old Testament theophoric names may include the name Lord, God, Adoni, or other names of Deity. This chart presents only those Hebrew names that include Lord (Hebrew YHWH, or Jehovah; remember that Jehovah is none other than Jesus Christ), which is represented in the names by the suffixes -iah,

-jah, -ai, or -jahu or the prefixes Ho-, Jo-, Jeh-, or Jeho-. For instance, the names Isaiah, Jeremiah, Uriah, Zedekiah, and Zephaniah each feature the suffix -iah, which is translated into English as “Lord.” Similarly, the names Jehoahaz, Jehoiachin, Jehoiada, Jehoiakim, and Jehoram each include the prefix Jeho-, which is also translated as “Lord.”

Theophoric names containing Lord are common in the Old Testament, and the chart contains only a representative sample. The first column in the chart lists the English form of the name as the translators of the Bible have transliterated it. The second column provides the meaning or the translation of the name.

The various theophoric names set forth the Lord’s attributes and character: He is a father, brother, protector, king, fortress, light, and refuge; He is mighty, majestic, great, exalted, righteous, strong, and good. He hears, saves, builds, sees, answers, sustains, succors, helps, knows, strengthens, loves, creates, establishes, shows favor, judges, remembers, protects, ransoms, heals, and consoles. Theophoric names teach us of these and many more characteristics that belong to God.

Lord: Compound Names

NameMeaning*
AbijahThe Lord is my father
AdaiahThe Lord has adorned Himself
AdonijahThe Lord is my lord
AhijahThe Lord is my brother
AmasiahThe Lord has borne
AmaziahThe Lord is strong
AnaiahThe Lord has answered
AsaiahThe Lord has made
AthaliahThe Lord is exalted
AzaniahThe Lord has heard
AzariahThe Lord has helped
BarachiahThe Lord blesses
BenaiahThe Lord has built
BeraiahThe Lord has created
BerechiahBlessed by the Lord
BesodeiahIn the secret council of the Lord
ChenaniahThe Lord is steadfast
DodavahuBeloved of the Lord
EliehoenaiToward the Lord are my eyes
ElijahThe Lord is my God
GedaliahThe Lord has magnified
GemariahThe Lord has completed
HabaiahThe Lord hides Himself
HacaliahHope is the Lord
HaggiahThe Lord is my festival
HananiahThe Lord has shown favor
HasadiahThe Lord is faithful
HashabiahThe Lord has taken into account
HazaiahThe Lord has seen
HilkiahMy share is the Lord
HodaviahCelebrate the Lord
HoshaiahThe Lord has saved
IbnijahThe Lord builds
IgdaliahThe Lord is great
IrijahThe Lord sees
IsaiahThe Lord is salvation
IsmachiahThe Lord sustains
JaazaniahThe Lord hears
JecoliahThe Lord can
JehoiakimThe Lord raises up
JehoramThe Lord is high
JekamiahMay the Lord establish
JeremiahThe Lord raises up
JochebedThe Lord is glory
JoelThe Lord is God
JohananThe Lord has shown favor
JoiaribThe Lord renders justice
JoshuaThe Lord saves
JozabadThe Lord has bestowed
JozadakThe Lord is just
KushaiahGift of the Lord
MaaziahThe Lord is a fortress
MalchijahMy king is the Lord
MeraiahLoved by the Lord
NehemiahThe Lord consoles
PedaiahThe Lord ransoms
RephaiahThe Lord has healed
SemachiahThe Lord has sustained
ShemariahThe Lord has preserved
ShephatiahThe Lord has judged
TobijahThe Lord is good
UriahMy light is the Lord
UzziahThe Lord is my strength
ZebadiahGift of the Lord
ZechariahThe Lord remembers
ZedekiahThe Lord is righteous
ZephaniahThe Lord protects
ZerahiahThe Lord has shone

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