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The speaker discusses the importance of names, especially in scripture. They explain that names have symbolic meanings and can tie individuals to their origins, traditions, or circumstances. The speaker also mentions that names in the Bible often signify origins, purpose, traits, or environment. They provide quotes from various sources discussing the significance of names and how they can be prophetic or invoke blessings. The speaker relates this to the study of the Godhead and the importance of understanding the meaning behind names in scripture. They mention that this episode is part of a series on the Godhead and that previous episodes covered topics such as terminology, the Shema, and the term "son of God." The speaker encourages listeners to check the description for additional resources and notes related to the episode. They conclude by emphasizing the symbolic nature of names and their role in invoking blessings or honoring deities. Have you ever wondered about the meaning behind names, especially the meaning behind the names in scripture? This is something important to know and understand. It's an important concept when we apply the meaning of names to the study of the Godhead because if you apply it and understand it incorrectly, it can lead you to error. And we discussed some of those errors in some of my episodes and we go over how the meaning of names applies to the study of the Godhead. So make sure to stay tuned for this episode in the Godhead series on the meaning of names. So this teaching is a continuation in our Godhead series and this teaching is going to be episode number five, a teaching on the meaning of names in the scriptures. Now before we delve into it, let's go ahead and review the purpose of this whole Godhead series in general. Number one, so that you can start from a point of not knowing anything, absolutely anything about the subject of the Godhead. You can learn what scripture says regarding various aspects to the subject of the Godhead. And finally, in the end, decide for yourself which form or which concept of the Godhead that you most agree with. Or maybe you think it's too confusing or it's not actually that important or whatever and just not make a decision. And that's fine. Here at God Honest Truth, we don't care which concept of the Godhead that you go with. It could be any of the four, whether it be Trinitarianism, Benetarianism, Biblical Unitarianism or Oneness. You're all brothers and sisters in Christ with us. So, whichever you decide, that's fine, but this series is to help you better understand the subject of the Godhead for yourself so that when someone does talk about this subject, you'll have a foundation to be able to engage in conversation with that person. Now leading up to tonight's episode, we've had four other episodes before this. Episode one, we went over the introduction and the terminology to the series. We went over, of course, the purpose of the series, what the series will include and what it will not include. We went over various terminology, things like fear-mongering, exegesis and eisegesis, the word, I'm sorry, the name Yahweh, the name Yeshua, the word Elohim, the various concepts of the Godhead. And there are four that we're covering, the four main ones that you will normally hear about, that being Trinitarianism, Venetarianism, Biblical Unitarianism, and Oneness or Modalism. Now, each of these will have its own episode coming up in the future, but back in episode one, we briefly covered each of those four different concepts. We also went over the terms heresy and orthodoxy, what they meant and how they apply. And we also went over real quickly about what is salvation, which is very important when you're studying and deciding on a concept of Godhead. Episode two, we went over the word God or gods and the Hebrew word Elohim and what all those meant. We went over the difference between names and titles, invariant nouns, the word Elohim and the words God and gods. In episode three, we went over the Shema, what the Shema itself actually was, the concept of ordinal numbers, the concept of cardinal numbers, the difference between Echad and Yahid, what those actually mean, how they, they're not the same, where Echad means one and Yahid means unified. In episode four, which was last week, last episode, we went over the term son or sons of God. We went over the basic phrase son of, and how that relates to both a direct relationship and an attribute relationship. We went over sons of God as it relates to angels, as it relates to men, and of course Messiah Yeshua himself. So in this episode, we're continuing on in our Godhead series, we went over the meaning of names. Now there's going to be a lot of information in tonight's drash, it's going to go fairly quickly though, so it's going to be a little bit shorter than some of the other drashes. However, there's a lot of information that goes into this, and there's going to be more information in the notes that we took for this episode. If you would like those notes, you can go down below, click in that link in that, I'm sorry, click on that link in the description, that will take you to the article post on our website, and there on that article post, you will be able to see the on-demand video, the slides that we used that you see here on your screen. You'll also be able to see the notes that we took for this episode, containing a lot more information than what we're presenting here in this video, and you'll also be able to get the transcript if that's important to you. All that is conveniently located for you down there in the description below, and that should be there whether you are listening on an audio podcasting platform or watching on a video podcasting platform. The link should be down there in the description nonetheless, and of course, as always, you can go directly to godhonesttruth.com and find the post from there. So getting to the meaning of names, what is in a name? This is something that we probably all know, at least implicitly, if we can't express it explicitly. So let's just go ahead and review so we have it good and fresh in our minds for when we're thinking about this subject of the Godhead. So what's in the name, the significance of names? From crosswalk.com, they have a quote here from their article, and it says, quote, names can tie us to our origins and traditions. Names can also allude to our circumstances or stand for something that mattered to our parents in choosing what others would call us. The importance of a person's name is especially evident in the Bible. Biblical names are rich in symbolism. Some names signify origins. Other biblical names denote purpose. Still other biblical names depict a person's traits or environment. Many parents give their child a name that honors God in some way, end quote. And that's true. We've all seen this, and we implicitly understand this, but it's good to state it explicitly so it brings it to the forefront of our minds. The parents are the ones giving the names, and it usually means something, usually signifying something about the person themselves, what they wish for the child, et cetera, et cetera. But going on, looking in the Encyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, this is under the entry for name, and it says, quote, all Oriental proper names have a special significance which is more or less obvious and generally may be ascertained. This meaning is often alluded to or explained in the Old Testament. In early times, they were conferred sometimes in reference to remarkable circumstances preceding or attending the child's birth, to peculiarities of its bodily constitution, to a wish connected with its future, or as an expression of endearment. Sometimes borrowed from religion, and in this case applied both as a pious remembrancer and an omen of good, sometimes the name had a prosthetic meaning, end quote. So, if a name sometimes has a meaning, again, it's a meaning, it's symbolic, that is prophetic in nature or is intended to be prophetic in nature sometimes, or it could be some other way. We'll get into some of the other ways in just a minute, some of the other meanings or purposes behind naming a child a certain thing. Going on to the Jewish Encyclopedia under their entry for names, and it says, quote, The conferring of a name upon a person was, in early biblical times, generally connected with some circumstance of birth. Several of Jacob's sons are recorded as having received their names in this manner. In early times, it appears to have been the custom to confer the name immediately upon birth as among modern Arabs, but later on it was given to the boy at circumcision, end quote. And we can see that in scripture as well. After the ritual of circumcision was instituted, we see various times where the child was given their name at their circumcision, obviously if they were a boy. We see that with our Messiah, Yeshua, as well. Going on to the New Shach-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, quote, Among primitive peoples and in the ethnic religion, the functions and ideas attached to the name are exceedingly important. The early Hebrews were not wont to name a child without considering the significance of the name. Personal names sometimes express the circumstances of the family when the child was born. But the general principle was to characterize the child's own individuality by the name bestowed. In the numerous cases in which a definite attribute of deity or some close relationship is expressed in the name, the idea intended is that of invocation of a blessing, end quote. So that's something also that's very important to pick up on. That very last sentence there. Let me read it again. In the numerous cases in which a definite attribute of deity or some close relationship is expressed in the name, the idea intended is that of invocation of a blessing. So once again, we see these names and so far we've gotten from these dictionaries and encyclopedias that names are symbolic. They have meaning, things like that. As it comes to the subject of the Godhead, we're definitely dealing with this last sentence right here when it comes to a name with an attribute of deity. It means to invoke a blessing or to give honor to whatever deity it is. And the names we see in scripture that includes the name Yahweh, the shortened form Yah or Yahu, which occurs a lot in names such as Jeremiah, Yirmeyahu, Elijah, Eliyahu, things like that. There's also the name, I'm sorry, the title El or Elohim. You see that in a lot of biblical names as well. But these things are all symbolic and they have meaning. They're not literal in what they stand for. Going on finally to the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary. The aphoric names, both personal and geographic, have as one of their elements a divine name or epithet. Since many Semitic names were compounded from two or three elements to form verbal or nominal sentences, the aphoric names thus represent declarations about or expressions of petition to the deity mentioned in the name, end quote. Let me read that last part one more time. The aphoric names, that's referring to names which include the name of a deity or reference to a deity. The aphoric names thus represent declarations about or expressions of petition to the deity mentioned in the name. So again, it's going back to giving honor to that particular deity to express declarations about that particular deity or petitioning that particular deity. But again, it's all got significant meaning to it. It's not literal. The actual meaning of the name is not literal. And that's going to be repeated throughout this dross. And we're going to prove it to you that it's not literal. Hopefully it doesn't feel like beating a dead horse, but that's the point we're trying to get across to you. That the meanings of the names are symbolic and not literal. For example, let's go ahead and start the examination of names in scripture by starting with the names of places first before we move into people. So just a few names of places. The first one we'll start out with is one that everyone, just about everyone should be familiar with. That is the word Bethlehem or the two words in Hebrew actually. You may know this better as the English anglicized form of Bethlehem. Bethlehem is one word, but in Hebrew it's Bethlehem. And that literally means house of bread. That's the meaning. House of bread. So is it literal? Does it literally mean there's a house made out of bread? Were Hansel and Gretel or going to some evil witch baker? No. Bethlehem is just a significant meaning of this name, of this place. It means house of bread. Why is it called the house of bread? I don't know. There's not literally a house made out of bread. So again, it's symbolic. It signifies something, but it's not literal in its meaning. Moving on to the Hebrew word Yerushalayim. You may know this better by the English version of it, Jerusalem. This is the capital of Israel and has been ever since the time of King David. But anyways, Yerushalayim or Jerusalem means city of peace. That's the meaning of the name Yerushalayim. Does that mean that it's literally a city of peace? No. Look back over your history. Even during the time of Yeshua, it was not a city of peace. Maybe it's prophetic and it will be one day. And then we know that new Jerusalem, when it comes down out of the sky to here on earth, will be a city of peace, but not the one we've got now. There's way too much turmoil over there in the Middle East going on. There's too much fighting over the city of Jerusalem. And there has been for a long time. There was all kinds of Jewish revolts back during the time surrounding Yeshua when he was here. And then in 70, Jerusalem was taken over and the temple was destroyed. Yeah, so it's not been a literal city of peace, at least not yet. So again, maybe this is what the meaning is what the city is supposed to be. It's supposed to be a city of peace, but it's not there yet. So we know, once again, that this is not a literal meaning. The meaning of the name is not literal. Better way of putting it. Better way of putting it. So that's just two place names that we have examined. Let's move on into human beings, starting with the names of some men. And this is just a short selection of men's names. And the full entries for each of these are in the notes. So go check that out on GodHonestTruth.com or click on the link down below. Anyways, the first one we start with is the name Avram. Avram. You may have heard it better as the English word Abram. But Abram or Avram means high father or exalted father. At the time he was called this, at his birth, was he a father? No, he wasn't. So maybe it was intended that he would be a good father at some point when his father or his mother named him, probably his mother. But when he had this name, Avram, he was not a father. In fact, his name was changed before he actually had a son. His name was changed to Avraham. Avraham. He may have been better by the English word Abraham. Anyways, Abraham. Recap. Avram means exalted father, but Avraham means populous father or father of many. This was changed by Yahweh himself when the promise was given to Abraham. Now, during his lifetime, was Abraham a father of many? It really depends on your definition of many, because there's two sons that are mentioned in the scripture, and he didn't have too many more after that. So was he a father of many? Not really in comparison, not really in the grand scheme of things. Not during his lifetime, anyways. But he's still considered the father of many because the promise was given to him. So was that literal, the meaning of it? Father of many? Was that literal during his lifetime? No, but he eventually came to be that. So the meaning of the name was prophetic instead of being literal during his lifetime. His son, Isaac, the Hebrew word Yitzhak, Yitzhak. But in Hebrew, Yitzhak means laughter or something like mockery. He was given this name because of Sarah's laughter when she heard the prophecy about being pregnant. She thought she was too old. She thought her husband was too old, and she would never be able to conceive. She did not trust and put her faith in Yahweh. She laughed about it. However, does that pertain to the child himself, to Abraham's son himself? No, because I don't remember any laughter coming from Isaac. He probably did sometime during his lifetime, but it's not recorded in scripture. Was he laughing all the time? Was he the physical embodiment of laughter? No, that's just the meaning of his name. The meaning of his name is not literal. It's like everything else we've discovered or examined. One that's really interesting is the Hebrew word Shlomo, Shlomo. You may notice by the English word Solomon. Now in Hebrew, Shlomo actually comes from the word shalom. You can actually hear that in the name Shlomo. But you don't get that in the English word Solomon. Shlomo means peaceful or peaceable, something like that. So was Solomon peaceful his entire life? No, he brought in a lot of turmoil when he went after foreign gods. He brought in idolatry. What he did caused the nation to split into the northern and southern kingdoms. He had a good run for a while there. There was peace with the neighbors. There was great wealth that came in to the nation of Israel. The temple was built and things like that. But it wasn't throughout his entire lifetime. Because there near the end, he started going after other gods. And it just completely went a direction other than peaceable. So once again, this may have been wishful thinking on the parts of his mother and father when they named him. But it certainly was not literal throughout his entire life. Again, the name, the meaning of the name is symbolic. Moving on to the Hebrew word Yonah. You may know this better by the English word Jonah. Jonah. And the Hebrew word Yonah means dove. So was the prophet Jonah a dove? No, he was a human. So was the human prophet Jonah the physical embodiment of a dove in human form? No. No, it's just a characteristic that I guess his parents intended for him to have or hoping that he would have. Something like that. Something like a gentle spirit or gentle interactions with people he came in contact with. But Yonah means dove in Hebrew. It's a symbolic meaning and it's not literal. Because Jonah was a human being, not a dove. Going on to a Greek word now in the Brit Hadashah. The word felitos. You better, you probably know it better as the word philip or the name philip. Now, felipos in Greek actually means hound of horses or horse lover. Does anyone remember a verse in scripture that describes Philip as being a horse lover? Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't. But it's just a meaning of a name. Maybe a wishful thought on the part of his mother and father at birth. It could not have been categorized as a horse lover when he came out of the womb. They didn't know what he was going to like and enjoy. So when his parents gave him that name, it was symbolic and not literal. Moving on to the name Shimshon. Shimshon, you know it better as the English word Samson. Had the long hair. He was a Nazirite all his life. He was very strong. He brought down the temple of the Philistines. That is Shimshon or Samson. Now, the Hebrew word Shimshon means sunlight. Okay, so if we take this literal, then was Samson the physical embodiment of sunlight? No, it's a symbolic meaning. Again, the meaning is symbolic, not literal. Going on to the names of women. We just examined the name Shimshon or Samson. So let's start with the names of women with the name Delilah. Hopefully everyone is familiar with the story of Samson and Delilah. But Delilah literally means languishing. That's the meaning of the name Delilah. Meaning something like weak or delicate or feeble or something like that. Now, from the story we get from the interactions between Samson and Delilah, Delilah was not weak and feeble. She was persistent. She went after Samson, was able to deceive him into giving away his secret for the Philistines. So I would not consider her feeble or weak or delicate, stuff like that. Maybe delicate, I don't know. I don't really know what she looked like or how she handled herself. But certainly not feeble or weak. She was determined and she ended up getting Samson. So again, the meaning of her name is not literal, it is symbolic. We'll go on to Zipporah, Zipporah, or the English side of Zipporah. English side version Zipporah or Zipporah. This was the wife of Moses when he went to Midian and he was given a wife. Her name was named Zipporah. Her name means bird. So was Zipporah a bird in human form? No, this is no magical Harry Potter kind of nonsense. Again, the meaning of a name is symbolic. Maybe an attribute that her parents wished her to have when she was born, things like that. But it certainly was not literal. Just because her name means bird does not mean that she was a bird. She, the name is symbolic. Like I said, I'm going to emphasize that point throughout tonight until you get that point. Going on to Rahel, Rahel. You may know it by the English form Rachel. Anyways, Rahel means lamb or ewe more specifically. Again, was Rahel a sheep? Was she a sheep in human clothing to play on the pun? No. She was a human, but the meaning of her name meant ewe, like a female lamb. Going on to Isabel, Isabel. You may know by the name in English as Jezebel. Now Jezebel, the person has gotten a bad rap and for good measure, right? She did a lot of horrible things and things she should not have done. And she fulfilled some prophecy against her. Go read that story. It's fairly graphic, but in my opinion, well deserved of someone like that. But anyways, the name Jezebel means chaste or modest. As you go through and you read the story in the scripture about the person Jezebel, she was anything but chaste and modest. Now, in full disclosure, we do not find any evidence in scripture that she was like an adulteress or she was overly promiscuous with people other than her husband. We don't see that. So not in that sense. However, in scripture, we often see our faith in our walls with Yahweh as a marriage between his people and him with Yahweh being the husband and we being his bride. That is the symbology that is put forth throughout scripture. Now Jezebel, on the other hand, actively persecuted the prophets of Yahweh and sought to bring in foreign gods, to bring in idolatry. So in that sense, in that symbolic sense, she was an adulteress because she was going after other gods. So in that sense, she was not chaste. We definitely know she wasn't chaste in that sense of the word. And as we read through about Jezebel, we definitely know she wasn't modest. She was a queen. She dolled up. All that good stuff. She was definitely not modest. But the meaning of her name means chaste or modest. Doesn't mean it's literally that person because we do not see that with Jezebel. So we know from several of these names, but especially names like Jezebel, that the meaning of a name is not literal. It's symbolic. It's a good wish on the part of the mother and father when they're naming that newborn child. So for further understanding, like I said at the beginning, these are kind of things that we know implicitly, but it's kind of hard to even think about explicitly when we're trying to put it into words. And part of the difficulty, especially here in America, and I'm just speaking for the American English part of the world, is that names a lot of times don't really have meaning to us. What little meaning they do carry is just on the part of individuality to distinguish one person from another. There's really nothing behind the name itself. Now, in Hebrew, these names come from other common words, which themselves have root words. Take for instance the name Shlomo, Samson. Well, Shlomo comes from the Hebrew word shalom, meaning peace. Now, when people said or heard the name Shlomo, these Hebrew speakers would have intuitively understood and heard that shalom in there because they would have been familiar with that word peace, shalom. But we don't get that with our English names that we have now, even the translated names from scripture. You don't get that sense of peace when you hear the word Solomon. Most of us have heard the word shalom. You don't have to be a studier of Hebrew. You don't have to be a Christian. You've never even been to Israel, but you've probably heard through TV or conversation, stuff like that. You've probably heard the word shalom. So, if you ever heard the actual name Shlomo, even as an English speaker, it would start bringing to mind that word shalom, and this is what the Hebrew speakers would have picked up on during that time, or even nowadays, the Hebrew speakers. But we don't have that in English nowadays. That kind of meaning, that depth of meaning doesn't really come through for us because our English names really don't have that, really doesn't have that much meaning. We just distinguish, use names to distinguish one person from another, and that's about the extent of it. I try to do different with my children and giving them Hebrew names, but for people who don't really know or understand Hebrew, they don't really pick up on those names. It's just like another English name. But sometimes, throughout history especially, people were named with names that were descriptive, that told of some of the meaning, and now we are translating that into English and it still holds the same meaning, even in English. When I started doing this episode, putting it together, the first thing that came to mind was the names of Vikings. A lot of times, Vikings would have names that, even in English, would still hold their description. Names such as Fenn Fortbeard, Yorn Ironside, Eric the Red, Harold Fairhair, Harold Bluetooth, Ivar the Boneless. A lot of these names that they've gotten, the description part of it, the meaning, was actually earned sometime in their lives. Ivar the Boneless, for instance, was born without the use of his legs. He had a deformity. He had a deformity. That's why he was called Ivar the Boneless. Other names, such as Ingvar the Far-Traveled. I'm sure you can understand how he might have gotten that name. Eric Bloodaxe, Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye. Now, Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, they said he was born with something in his eye that looked like a snake curled around and eating its own tail. That's how he got the name Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye. Some of these names and descriptions and meanings of the names were given to them at birth. Other names, like Yorn Ironside, they say when he was in battle that he could take blows to the sides and it would not hurt him, almost like he was made of iron, like his sides of his body were made of iron. He got the name Yorn Ironside. So, this is an example of a name in English that still retains the meaning of the name, the description of the name. But when it comes to Hebrew names, we don't really get that in our English words. And it's a travesty because it's taken away from some of the richness that we get from Hebrew. Anyways, moving on, these names and the meaning of the names, they normally come from about four different types of categories, we'll put it that way. Anyways, it could be something to do with nature names, such as animal names, plant names, meteorological names, things like that. We saw with Samson, the name meant sunlight. We saw with Rachel, her name, the meaning of her name meant you, stuff like that. There's also theophoric names, names like Zechariah, Zachariah, which means remember Yah, that's a theophoric name. Names implying relationship, names that would include son of so and so or what have you. And also descriptive names, something like, well, I can't think of it right now, but names that would intend to put forth a certain attribute that a parent would wish to have for that child. And sometimes names were changed later on. We saw that with Abraham. We saw that with Jacob and his name was changed to Yisrael. These names could be changed later on. And Yisrael is a descriptive name, one who wrestled with El. So it's also a theophoric name. But like I said, going back to the main point of this teaching is that the meaning of names is not literal, but it's rather symbolic or descriptive, even indicating a detection of a characteristic quality in the person. So once again, it can be given at birth or the name can be given or changed later on, but it is symbolic, it is descriptive, but it's not, the meaning is not literal. This can lead you astray if you consider the name, I'm sorry, meaning of the name to be literal. Let me give you one example here from Scripture itself. This is the name of a king of Yisrael named King Yehu, or as you know it in English, Jehu. Now, the meaning of Yehu's name, the meaning is Yahweh is he. Now, if we take that to be literal, then we would be saying that Yehu is Yahweh, but no, but no, that would be nonsense and that would be a complete travesty of understanding what the meaning of names is. Yehu's name is symbolic, it's theophoric, it's not literal. Yehu was not Yahweh. If you take it as literal, if you understand the meaning of names to be literal, you err. This is a big one. So, if you associate Yehu with Yahweh, that is a big mistake because Yehu was a man. He was just a king of Israel, he was not Yahweh. So, once again, the meaning of a name is symbolic, it's descriptive, it gives honor, but it is not literal. So, just to sum all this up and go over what we have examined so far in this study, biblical names are rich in symbolism and we went over a lot of those already and there's more in the notes and there's more that's in Scripture that we didn't even put in the notes. But biblical names are rich in symbolism, signifying origin, purpose, a person's trait, or a name that honors God in some way. Names were conferred in reference to circumstances of a child's birth, to peculiarities of a person's bodily constitution, to a wish connected with a person's future, as an expression of endearment, and sometimes the name had a prophetic meaning. Theophoric names represent declarations about or expressions of petition to the deity mentioned in the name. So, the names we went over, Bethlehem or Bethlehem, house of bread. There was no literal house made out of bread. It's just the meaning of the name Bethlehem. It could even be prophetic if you want to try and go down that route because who was born in Bethlehem, the bread of life. So, maybe prophetic, but the point is the meaning of the name Bethlehem is house of bread. Does it literally mean there was a house made out of bread? Jerusalem or Yerushalayim, meaning city of peace, but we know that's not literal, or at least not yet, not until the end days. Abraham, high father, whose name was changed to Abraham, father of many. Isaac or Yitzchak, meaning laughter or mockery. Solomon or Shlomo, meaning peaceful, coming from the word Shalom. Jonah or Yonah, meaning dove, but Jonah wasn't a dove in a skin suit. Philip or Philippos, meaning horse lover or someone who is fond of horses. Samson or Shimshon, meaning sunlight, but he wasn't sunlight wearing a skin suit. Again, it's not literal, it's symbolic, it has meaning, but it's not literal. Delilah, meaning feeble or weak or delicate, but we know that Delilah in the story of Samson and Delilah, she was persistent, she kept on, she was anything but weak and delicate. Zipporah, meaning bird. I seriously doubt Zipporah had wings and a beak. She was a human. It's just that the meaning of her name was bird. That means she was literally a bird, that was the meaning of her name. Rachel or Rachel, meaning you. They didn't shave Rachel once a year and make clothing out of her hair that she shed off. No, it's just the meaning of her name. Jezebel, Jezebel, meaning chaste or modest, but the Jezebel we see from scripture was anything but chaste and modest, at least in the symbolic meaning between Yahweh and his people. And finally, the name Yehu or Jehu. His name means Yahweh is he, but unless we want the error, we know that it's not literal. It doesn't literally mean that Jehu is Yahweh, no. Just the meaning of his name, it does not mean that Jehu was Yahweh. Jehu was just a king. He was not Yahweh. So, don't take the name as literal or else you will err many times. So, wrap this up. The meaning of a name, meaning of biblical names we get from scripture, those meanings of those names are not literal. They're symbolic, things like that. Meaning of names, like I said, are symbolic. They're descriptive. They're sometimes prophetic even, or they can be honorific, giving honor to someone, especially Yahweh and the name that they come up with. These names are not literal. They are symbolic, descriptive, prophetic, or honorific. And that's just the God honest truth. Thank you for watching this episode in our Godhead series. We really do hope that you got something out of it. And once again, go check out the link in the description down below for the notes that we took on this or more information than what was included here. 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