Bible Names

Diana: meaning of the name

Diana means “luminous, perfect.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)girl name

Diana in Hebrew and Greek

Ἄρτεμις G735

Ártemis — prompt; Artemis, the name of a Grecian goddess borrowed by the Asiatics for one of their deities

probably from the same as G736 (ἀρτέμων);

Who named Diana in the Bible

Diana in Scripture

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

  • Acts 19:24

    For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;

  • Acts 19:27

    So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

  • Acts 19:28

    And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

  • Acts 19:34

    But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

  • Acts 19:35

    And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?