A similar journey we took after our daughter was born. I downloaded close to a thousand names from the internet and shared it with my wife to short list few of them. Among the ones that she short listed was the beautiful name, “Isabel”. It means “God’s Promise”. We both loved the name and were happy that we had finalised on a good name so soon. Even the internet ratings agreed with us that Isabel was a popular days over the past few decades.
In history while most of us were unaware, there lived a woman by name Jezebel. This lady after almost 3000 years influenced us in naming our baby as Isabel.
Jezebel was a crafty, malicious, revengeful, and cruel; a queen who is branded as being the first great instigator of persecution against the saints of God. She is also mentioned in the chapter of Revelation and is meant to be synonymous for a wicked woman.
At the same time Isabel as such is not mentioned in the Bible. But the name
What does all this has to do with us naming our daughter Isabel? Everything! Unfortunately for my daughter, she was born to south Indian parents, with Malayalam as the mother tongue. In Malayalam, Jezebel is pronounced as “Yesabel”.
Both of us fought with all our relatives to sell the point that Yesabel mentioned in the Malayalam Bible is not Isabel but Jezebel. Confused? Well that is how first our relatives felt and in due course of time they confused us and convinced us in changing my daughter’s name.
Not aware of any of this chaos, all along Laura Thomas was relaxing on her monther’s arms. Yes eventually after evaluating few names with settled down with “Laura,” a non-biblical name. Meaning of which very few of my relatives would know, therefore fewer the problems that would arise.
Laura is from the word “
With prayers, I remain. Have a great day!
