Bible Names

James: meaning of the name

James means “same as Jacob.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

James in Hebrew and Greek

Ἰάκωβος G2385

Iákōbos — Jacobus, the name of three Israelites

the same as G2384 (Ἰακώβ) Græcized;

People named James in the Bible

James in Scripture

“James” appears in 38 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Matthew 4:21

    And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.

  • Matthew 10:2

    Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

  • Matthew 10:3

    Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, whose surname was Thaddeus;

  • Matthew 13:55

    Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

  • Matthew 17:1

    And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,

  • Matthew 27:56

    Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s children.

  • Mark 1:19

    And when he had gone a little further thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.

  • Mark 1:29

    And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.