Hey, everybody, it's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast. and I remember when I was a kid, the Trivial Pursuit Cards.

I used to study the Trivial Pursuit Cards because I want to try to beat my dad, but he's too smart.

And one of the categories of questions or styles of questions I remember was there was a bunch of them where the question would be structured like by what more famous name is such and such

known. It was like a name change question. And that's where I learned that Lou Alcinder

became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. That is how I learned that Cassius Clay became, do you remember,

Muhammad Ali?

Some other famous name changes from history.

You're probably thinking of some of them right now.

We've talked about one here a lot that's a famous name change.

Octavian, the godson of Julius Caesar, became known as Caesar Augustus.

It happens, right?

Sometimes, you know, name changes occur because a person goes through a transformative moment or the legend grows or whatever it might be.

But I think at an even greater clip than in history in the Bible, names get changed,

like they get changed left and right. There's tons of

name changes. And every time you see it, it means something. Almost every name change in the Bible

teaches theology in some way. Okay, let's do the name change game. We'll start with a couple easy ones

from the Bible. Abram, right? He becomes Abraham. That one's right there. Sarai, right?

It becomes Sarah. That's right there. How about Jacob? This one is a stem changer, right? It's an

irregular name changer. It doesn't go to like Jacobus or something. It's Israel. How about

Gideon? Do you remember what he ends up getting called? Isn't it Jerobal? Jereail, depending on how you say that. And then probably the

most famous one of them all, right, is Simon, the guy who we were talking about yesterday in John

Chapter 1. Simon, what does his name end up being? Well, it ends up being Peter or Seifis.

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