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    Talbot

    TAL-but

    French/Germanic
    Boy
    Meaning-based name
    Meaning
    Messenger of destruction; Command of the valley
    Origin
    French/Germanic
    Is it in the Bible?
    No — the name Talbot does not appear in the King James Bible. Christian families use it for its meaning, "Messenger of destruction; Command of the valley", and for the biblical themes that meaning touches, not because anyone in Scripture is called Talbot.
    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
    Talbot is exalted from the valley — the crooked made straight, the lowly lifted, the commander who rises by God's sovereign leveling.
    Verses on this meaning
    • Isaiah 40:4

      "Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain."

    • Luke 1:52

      "He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree."

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