Bible Names

Immanuel: meaning of the name

Immanuel means “God with us.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Immanuel in Hebrew and Greek

עִמָּנוּאֵל H6005

ʻImmânûwʼêl (im-maw-noo-ale') — Immanuel, a type name of Isaiah's son

from H5973 (עִם) and with a pronominal suffix inserted; with us (is) God;

Immanuel in Scripture

“Immanuel” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Isaiah 7:14

    Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

  • Isaiah 8:8

    And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.