Bible Names

Nicodemus: meaning of the name

Nicodemus means “victory of the people.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Nicodemus in Hebrew and Greek

Νικόδημος G3530

Nikódēmos — victorious among his people; Nicodemus, an Israelite

from G3534 (νῖκος) and G1218 (δῆμος);

Who named Nicodemus in the Bible

Nicodemus in Scripture

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

  • John 3:1

    There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

  • John 3:4

    Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?

  • John 3:9

    Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

  • John 7:50

    Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)

  • John 19:39

    And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.