Amadeus
ah-mah-DAY-us
Latin
Boy
Meaning-based name
- Meaning
- Love of God; Beloved of God
- Origin
- Latin
- Is it in the Bible?
- No — the name Amadeus does not appear in the King James Bible. Christian families use it for its meaning, "Love of God; Beloved of God", and for the biblical themes that meaning touches, not because anyone in Scripture is called Amadeus.
- First appears in
- Does not appear in the King James text
- Peak US usage
- No recorded United States usage in the 1880–2008 records
- Spiritual meaning
- Amadeus is held by inseparable love — neither death nor life, neither height nor depth, the beloved of God whom no creature can pull from the Father's arms.
- Verses on this meaning
- Romans 8:38-39
"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
- 1 John 4:10
"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."
- Romans 8:38-39