Bible Names

So: meaning of the name

So means “a measure for grain; vail.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

So in Hebrew and Greek

סוֹא H5471

Çôwʼ (so) — So, an Egyptian king

of foreign derivation;

Who named So in the Bible

So in Scripture

“So” appears in 620 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 1:27

    So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

  • Genesis 3:24

    So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

  • Genesis 11:8

    So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

  • Genesis 12:4

    So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

  • Genesis 15:5

    And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

  • Genesis 18:5

    And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

  • Genesis 20:17

    So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

  • Genesis 22:19

    So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer–sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer–sheba.