Bible Names

Bildad: meaning of the name

Bildad means “old friendship.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Bildad in Hebrew and Greek

בִּלְדַּד H1085

Bildad (bil-dad') — Bildad, one of Job's friends

of uncertain derivation;

Who named Bildad in the Bible

Bildad in Scripture

“Bildad” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • Job 2:11

    Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

  • Job 8:1

    Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

  • Job 18:1

    Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

  • Job 25:1

    Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

  • Job 42:9

    So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also accepted Job.