Luke 1:61
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They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who has that name.”
Read Luke 1:61 Using Other Translations
And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.
And they said to her, "None of your relatives is called by this name."
“What?” they exclaimed. “There is no one in all your family by that name.”
What does Luke 1:61 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Luke 1:61
And they said unto her
Her neighbours and relations, there is none of thy kindred that
is called by this name; from whence it appears, that it was usual
to give names to children after their ancestors, relations, and
friends. The Persic version renders it, "in thine Israel there is
not any one of this name": but this could not be true; for the
name of Jochanan, or John, was a name very common among the
Israelites, though not in Elisabeth's family, or her husband's.
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