This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with ''E'' in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links.
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Ebal
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Ebed
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Ebed-melech
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Eben-Ezer
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Eber
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Ebiasaph
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Ebronah
The Stations of the Exodus are the locations visited by the Israelites following their exodus from Egypt, according to the Hebrew Bible. In the itinerary given in Numbers 33, forty-two stations are listed, although this list differs sligh ...
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Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes (; hbo, קֹהֶלֶת, Qōheleṯ, grc, Ἐκκλησιαστής, Ekklēsiastēs) is one of the Ketuvim ("Writings") of the Hebrew Bible and part of the Wisdom literature of the Christian Old Testament. The title commonly use ...
*Ecclesiasticus, or the
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* Ed
*Eden
Eden may refer to:
* Garden of Eden, the "garden of God" described in the Book of Genesis
Places and jurisdictions
Canada
* Eden, Ontario
* Eden High School
Middle East
* Eden, Lebanon, a city and former bishopric
* Camp Eden, Iraq
O ...
*Eder Eder may refer to:
People
* Eder (surname)
* Éder (given name), a Portuguese or Spanish given name
*Éder (footballer, born 1986), Brazilian footballer Éder Citadin Martins
*Eder (footballer, born 1987), Portuguese footballer from Guinea-Bissau E ...
* Edom
* Edrei
* Eglah
* Eglaim
* Eglon
* Egypt
*Ehi Ehi or EHI may refer to:
* Ehi (biblical figure), a minor Old Testament figure
* Ehi (spirit), the name of a personal spirit in some West African religious beliefs
* Endurmenntun Háskóla Íslands, a continuing education centre operated by the Uni ...
* Ehud
* Eker
* Ekron
* Eladah
* Elah
*Elam
Elam (; Linear Elamite: ''hatamti''; Cuneiform Elamite: ; Sumerian: ; Akkadian: ; he, עֵילָם ''ʿēlām''; peo, 𐎢𐎺𐎩 ''hūja'') was an ancient civilization centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretc ...
* Elasah
* Elath
* El-beth-el
* Eldaah
*Eldad Eldad ( he, אֶלְדָּד) may refer to:
* Eldad and Medad, two Biblical figures mentioned in the Book of Numbers
* Kfar Eldad, an Israeli Communal settlement in the Gush Etzion Regional Council
* Maccabi Neve Sha'anan Eldad F.C., an Israeli f ...
* Elead
* Elealeh
* Eleasah
* Eleazar
* El-elohe-Israel
* Eleph
* Elhanan son of Dodo
* Elhanan son of Jair
* Eli
* Eliab
* Eliada
* Eliah
* Eliahba
* Eliakim
* Eliam
* Elias
* Eliasaph
* Eliashib
* Eliathah
* Elidad
*Eliel
Eliel is a Hebrew name. It can be translated to English as "My God is God".
The name is formed from two different Hebrew terms for God. Eli, meaning "my God" and El "God". Therefore, the commonly understood meaning of the name is "my God God" or ...
* Elienai
*Eliezer
Eliezer (, "Help/Court of El") was the name of at least three different individuals in the Bible.
Eliezer of Damascus
Eliezer of Damascus () was, according to the Targums, the son of Nimrod. Eliezer was head of the patriarch Abraham's househo ...
* Elihoreph
* Elihu
* Elijah
* Elika
*Elim
Elim may refer to:
Places
* Elim Aboriginal Mission, Queensland, Australia
Africa
* Elim, Western Cape, a village on the Agulhas Plain in the Western Cape of South Africa
* Elim (Bible), one of the places where the Israelites camped following t ...
* Elimelech
* Elioenai
* Eliphal
* Eliphaz
* Eliphelet
* Elizabeth
*Elisha
Elisha ( ; or "God is my salvation", Greek: , ''Elis îos'' or , ''Elisaié,'' Latin: ''Eliseus'') was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a prophet and a wonder-worker. His name is commonly transliterated into English as Elisha via Hebrew, Eli ...
* Elishah
* Elishama
* Elishaphat
* Elisheba
*Elishua
Elisha ( ; or "God is my salvation", Greek: , ''Elis îos'' or , ''Elisaié,'' Latin: ''Eliseus'') was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a prophet and a wonder-worker. His name is commonly transliterated into English as Elisha via Hebrew, Eli ...
*Eliud
Eliud, also known as Elihud, was a legendary king of the Britons, as recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth
Geoffrey of Monmouth ( la, Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus, cy, Gruffudd ap Arthur, Sieffre o Fynwy; 1095 – 1155) was a Briti ...
* Elizur
* Elkanah
* Ellasar
*Elkoshite
This list contains tribes or other groups of people named in the Bible of minor notability, about whom either nothing or very little is known, aside from any family connections.
A Accaba, descendants of
For the descendants of "Accaba" (1 Esd ...
* Elm
*Elmodam
This list contains List of biblical names, persons named in the Bible in the New Testament of minor notability, about whom either nothing or very little is known, aside from any family connections.
A Abihud
Abihud or Abiud was the son of Zer ...
* Elnaam
* Elnathan
*Elon
Elon commonly refers to Elon Musk.
Elon may also refer to:
People
* Elon (name), a given name and surname
Places in the United States
* Elon, Iowa, an unincorporated community
* Elon, North Carolina, a town
* Elon, Virginia, an unincorporated ...
* Elon-beth-hanan
* Elpaal
* Elpalet
* Eltekeh
* Eltolad
* Elul
* Eluzai
*Elymas
Elymas , () also known as Bar-Jesus ( grc, Βαριεσοῦ, arc, Bar-Shuma, la, Bariesu), is a Jew described in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 13, in the New Testament. He is referred to as a ''mágos'', which the King James Bible translates ...
* Elzabad
* Elzaphan
*Emims
The Emites ( or ) or Emim ( he, ''ʾĒmīm'') was the Moabite name for Repha'im. They are described in the Book of Deuteronomy, chapter 2 as having been a powerful and populous people. They were defeated by the Moabites, who occupied their lan ...
* Emmanuel
* Emmaus
* Emmor
* Enan
* En-dor
*Eneas
In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (, ; from ) was a Trojan hero, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the Greek goddess Aphrodite (equivalent to the Roman Venus). His father was a first cousin of King Priam of Troy (both being grandsons of ...
* En-eglaim
* En-gannim
* En-gedi
* En-haddah
* En-hakkore
*En-hazor En-hazor ("fount of Hazor") is a fortified settlement named in the Book of Joshua as part of the inheritance of Naphtali, distinct from a settlement called Hazor mentioned in the same context.
Its location has not been identified, though a number ...
*En-mishpat
Kadesh or Qadesh or Cades (in classical Hebrew he, קָדֵשׁ, from the root "holy") is a place-name that occurs several times in the Hebrew Bible, describing a site or sites located south of, or at the southern border of, Canaan and the Kin ...
* Enoch
*Enon
Enon may refer to:
Places United States
*Enon, Kentucky
*Enon, Moniteau County, Missouri
* Enon, St. Charles County, Missouri
*Enon, North Carolina
*Enon, Ohio
*Enon Valley, Pennsylvania
*Enon, Virginia
*Enon, West Virginia
Elsewhere
* Ænon, w ...
* Enos
* En-rimmon
*En-rogel
Ein Rogel (Hebrew: ''ʿĒn Rōgēl''), also known as Well of Job, was a spring on the outskirts of Jerusalem mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the hiding-place of David's spies, Jonathan and Ahimaaz, during Absalom's uprising against the rule of ...
* En-shemesh
* En-tappuah
*Epaphras
Epaphras ( el, Ἐπαφράς) was an observer of the Apostle Paul mentioned twice in the New Testament epistle of Colossians and once in the New Testament letter to Philemon.
Biblical accounts
Epaphras is mentioned three times in the New Testa ...
* Epaphroditus
* Epenetus
*Ephah
Ephah (, ''‘Êp̄āh'', Septuagint Γαιφα, ''Gaipha'') was one of Midian's five sons as listed in the Hebrew Bible. Midian, a son of Abraham, was the father of Ephah, Epher, Enoch, Abida, and Eldaah by his wife KeturahGenesis 25:4. These ...
* Epher
* Ephes-dammim
*Ephesus
Ephesus (; grc-gre, Ἔφεσος, Éphesos; tr, Efes; may ultimately derive from hit, 𒀀𒉺𒊭, Apaša) was a city in ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in t ...
* Ephlal
* Ephphatha
*Ephraim
Ephraim (; he, ''ʾEp̄rayīm'', in pausa: ''ʾEp̄rāyīm'') was, according to the Book of Genesis, the second son of Joseph ben Jacob and Asenath. Asenath was an Ancient Egyptian woman whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph as wife, and the daughte ...
*Ephratah
Ephrath or Ephrathah or Ephratah ( he, אֶפְרָת \ אֶפְרָתָה) is a Bible, biblically-referenced former name of Bethlehem, meaning "fruitful". It is also a personal name.
Biblical place
A very old tradition is that Ephrath refers to B ...
* Ephron
* Epicurean
* Er
* Eran
* Erastus
*Eri
Eri may refer to:
People
* Eri (biblical figure)
* Eri (given name), a Japanese feminine given name, including lists of people and fictional characters
* Eri (king), the progenitor of the Umu-Eri and Umu-Nri-Igbo ancient Nigerian city-states
* ...
* Esaias
*Esar-haddon
Esarhaddon, also spelled Essarhaddon, Assarhaddon and Ashurhaddon (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , also , meaning " Ashur has given me a brother"; Biblical Hebrew: ''ʾĒsar-Ḥaddōn'') was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his ...
* Esau
* Esek
*Eshbaal
Ish-bosheth ( he, , translit=ʼĪš-bōšeṯ, "man of shame"), also called Eshbaal (, ; alternatively spelled Ishbaal, "fire of Baal") was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the second monarch of the Kingdom of Israel who succeeded his father, Sau ...
* Eshban
* Eshcol
* Eshean
* Eshek
* Eshkalon
* Eshtaol
*Eshtemoa Eshtemoa, meaning obedience or "'place where prayer is heard", was an ancient city in the Judaean Mountains, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. It is also the name of two people mentioned in the First Book of Chronicles.
Eshtemoa, Jud ...
*Esli
''Esli'' (russian: Если, Russian for "If") was a Russian science fiction literary magazine. It was started in 1991 in Moscow, as a publisher of foreign SF stories, but soon broadened its format to include Russophone writers as well. In the 200 ...
* Esrom
* Esther
* Etam
* Etham
*Ethan
Ethan may refer to:
People
*Ethan (given name)
Places
*Ethan, South Dakota
*Fort Ethan Allen (Arlington, Virginia)
Fiction
*''Ethan of Athos'', 1986 novel by Lois McMaster Bujold
*"Ethan Brand", 1850 short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
*''Ethan ...
*Ethanim
Tishrei () or Tishri (; he, ''tīšrē'' or ''tīšrī''; from Akkadian ''tašrītu'' "beginning", from ''šurrû'' "to begin") is the first month of the civil year (which starts on 1 Tishrei) and the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year ...
* Ethbaal
* Ethiopia
* Ethnan
* Ethni
* Eubulus
*Eunice
Eunice is a feminine given name, from the Greek Εὐνίκη, ''Euníkē'', from "eu", good, and "níkē", victory. Eunice is also a relatively rare last name, found in Nigeria and the Southeastern United States, chiefly Louisiana and Georgia.
Pe ...
* Euodias
*Euphrates
The Euphrates () is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Tigris–Euphrates river system, Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia ( ''the land between the rivers'') ...
* Eutychus
* Eve
* Evi
* Evil-merodach
* Exodus
* Ezbon
*Ezekiel
Ezekiel (; he, יְחֶזְקֵאל ''Yəḥezqēʾl'' ; in the Septuagint written in grc-koi, Ἰεζεκιήλ ) is the central protagonist of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible.
In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Ezekiel is acknow ...
* Ezel
*Ezem
Ezem ( he, עצם, ''vars.'' ‛Atsem, 'Asam, Azem, 'Osem or Otzem, meaning ''strength, might, bone, to close,'' ''to defend'', also ''self'', ''self-same'' and ''strenuous'') is an unidentified site in the Negev of Judah toward the Edomite border ...
* Ezer
* Ezion-Geber
* Ezra
* Ezri
*Eva
References
*Comay, Joan, ''Who's Who in the Old Testament'', Oxford University Press, 1971,
*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,
*Lockyer, Herbert, ''All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible'', Zondervan Publishing 1988,
*Tischler, Nancy M., ''All things in the Bible: an encyclopedia of the biblical world '', Greenwood Publishing, Westport, Conn. : 2006
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