Bible Names

Niger: meaning of the name

Niger means “black.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Niger in Hebrew and Greek

Νίγερ G3526

Níger — black; Niger, a Christian

of Latin origin;

Niger in Scripture

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

  • Acts 13:1

    Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.