are gentians named after a person?
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Gentian: Is a bitter herb with medicinal roots.\n\nI know a lot of bitter people.\n\nIn answer it was named after: King Gentius of Illyria,
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The word in the Greek Textus Receptus is agape, which means "charitable love."  (I would have included the Greek here, but my version of Yahoo! won't let me paste it in).  What do you mean in your question when you differentiate between human and agape love?  In any case, 1 Cor 13:4-13 explains what Paul means by charity.
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Yeshua is the name called Jesus today.\nChrist (Kristos)is the title referring to the saviour.
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The names of his children
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Names just identify different groups of people to different causes.  The crux of the matter is people's reaction to a name, good or bad.  We are one in Christ, spiritually and not as natural persons.  There is neither Jew nor Gentile, slave nor free, male nor female; for we are one in Christ - Gal 3:28
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Επίσκοπος του Bishop\nΧριστόφορος Christopher\nΑντώνιος Anthony
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Yep they named a tendon  after him.
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Bar-Abbas,  according to tradition, had for his first name "Jesus." His name means, "The Savior, Son of the Father". The Romans thought it good to offer them a pick of the 2 Jesus' "The Savior, King of the Jews" or the other. The irony of the two Jesus' fits well with the story. A Jesus who was of the Father, or One Who would be their King. Some historians bear out this tale, but it has been sent to "Tradition," for lack of Biblical confirmation.
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Osbaldo has a variant in spelling from Osvaldo which is a Italian name that means divine Ruler.\nHere you can find more\nhttp://www.talkingbabies.com/boy-names/Osvaldo
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U sillyhead! U need to be more specific? Jesus is a very common name and they have a lot of last names.
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Hmm.  "Ganz" means roughly "all of".  "Mann" is a gender-neutral form of "he" or "she" -- like when we say "ONE ought to do what is right."  The temptation is to jam these together and claim it means something like "all of mankind".  I think that would be wrong, though, particularly considering the wide variance in German dialects and local ways of saying things.  Spelling has also not been standardized for very long, compared to how long German-speaking people have used surnames.  If I had to guess, I might hazard that the "Ganz" is derived from a place name, and the "man" part indicates that the person or family came from Ganz (or Gantz, or Gants, or Ghantz, or so on).  I hope that helps a little.
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To answer the whole question --the fifth human person named is Enoch, whose parents were "Cain and his wife"  (Genesis 4:17)\n\n(Not to be confused with the Enoch more people may have heard of--a descendant of Seth.  Cain's son is involved in building the first CITY, but the other "walked with God, and he was not, for God took him" -Gen 5:24.   Ironically, the 'Sethian' Enoch is named as the father of Methusaleh, who is considered the 'oldest man' though he died before his father!\n\nIf anyone is interested in word meaning and such, the Hebrew word Enoch --or we could more precisely transcribe at as 'Chenoch' [the 'ch' in each case being pronounced like the ch of Scottish "loch"]-- means 'dedicated, consecrated'.  It is the root of the word Chanukkah/Hanukkah, that is, the [Feast of] Dedication [of the Temple], celebrating the cleansing & reconsecrating of the Temple during the Maccabean revolt, after Antiochus Epiphanes had deliberately desecrated it.)
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The letter X in Xtian or Xian does not stand for taking the Christ out of it. Europeans in the 16th century started using X in place of Christ's name as shorthand for writing Christ. The Christian monks and scholars were knowledgeable of the Greek letter X, - Chi or Khi - which is the first letter in the Greek word "Christos" or "Kristos" (Greek: CristoV) The Greek and Hebrew word "Christos" comes out "Messiah" and mean the same thing: "The anointed One." For many years the X was understood by Christian clergy and as time passed, many Christians, educated and not, were not aware of the meaning.
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I'm sorry to have to take issue with the rabbi, but "John" is derived from Yôḥānān, short for יהוחנן Yəhôḥānān, meaning "Yahweh has been gracious [or 'has shown favor']." (The German name Johann is a bit closer to the original.)   It is NOT the same name as "Jonathan" (except for those who in more recent times have created the name "Jon" AS a nickname for Jonathan).  \n\nNote that "Jo" is not "God" (for which the Hebrew uses El or the "plural of majesty", "Elohim").  It is from "Ja/Yah/Yahu", the short form of the personal name of God in Hebrew (widely thought to be "Yahweh", traditionally considered very sacred and so replaced by "the LORD" [Hebrew, "Adonai"] to avoid speaking it).\n\nA related Hebrew name in that of the prophet Samuel's mother - "Hannah" [ḥānā], "gracious"(see 1 Samuel 1-2).  The name John also points to one of the most important proclamations of the Old Testament, that the LORD (Yahweh) is a "gracious" God who has shown his people grace/favor (see especially Exodus 34:6, whose expressions are echoed in many other places).  \n\nIncidentally, Hebrew names like Jonathan ["Yahweh has given"] and John ["Yahweh has been gracious"], and many others are "sentence names".  They make some confessional statement about God, and/or may be related to the circumstances of the child's birth.  These two names, for instance, would be very appropriate for a LONG-awaited child.  It is, in fact, precisely the circumstance of the birth of John the Baptist to the elderly Zechariah and Elizabeth [Luke 1]\n\n------------------\n\n"William" (as already noted) is originally a Germanic name, meaning something like "valiant protector".  Its popularity in English owed much to "William the Conqueror" (1066).  Actually, the Conqueror's name (and so our "William") does NOT come directly from the Germanic form of the name (which would be "Wilhelm")but from the Norman French form (from Old French) Guillaume.   Also, the "helm" part is related to the word "helmet" and might more literally refer to that object used for protection rather than just the abstract idea of protection.   At any rate, it is a name given to a warrior-leader who is regarded as the helmet/protection of a group of people.\n\nThe addition of an -s to form a surname is a common practice in English to indicate a "DESCENDANT of William" (In other words, adding an 's' to form a surname is essentially the same as adding "son" as in "Williamson", etc.)
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I'm not sure why you reference the Orthodox calendar but Yes, St Lawrence of Rome's memorial is August 10.\n\nAccording to BehindTheName.com, Lorena is latinized form of LAUREN, which is a feminine form of LAURENCE, which is from the Roman cognomen Laurentius, which meant "of Laurentum". Laurentum was a city in ancient Italy, its name probably deriving from Latin laurus "laurel". \n\nThere are several other St. Laurences if you would like to look into some others.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Hey Gerald, the Filipinos took the surnames of the Portuguese, Spanish and the other Latin missionaries that preached & converted you guys. Marco is Mark in latin. first name for some & surname for some. You don't worry about that.. Just take a chill pill & enjoy. Marco sounds good
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Absolutely.  Read the letters from Paul (e.g. Romans, 1 &2 Corinthians, etc.) and you'll see that Gentiles are just as welcome and just as saved.