Bible Names

Boanerges: meaning of the name

Boanerges means “son of thunder.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Boanerges in Hebrew and Greek

Βοανεργές G993

Boanergés — sons of commotion; Boanerges, an epithet of two of the apostles

of Chaldee origin (H01123 and H07266);

Boanerges in Scripture

“Boanerges” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Mark 3:17

    And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder: