Imara
ee-MAR-ah
Swahili/African
Girl
Meaning-based name
- Meaning
- Firm; Strong; Resolute
- Origin
- Swahili/African
- Is it in the Bible?
- No — the name Imara does not appear in the King James Bible. Christian families use it for its meaning, "Firm; Strong; Resolute", and for the biblical themes that meaning touches, not because anyone in Scripture is called Imara.
- 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
- Imara holds the way — steadfast, unmoveable, stronger and stronger, the firm soul whose labour abounds because it is never in vain.
- Verses on this meaning
- Job 17:9
"The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger."
- 1 Corinthians 15:58
"Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord."
- Job 17:9