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    Caleb

    KAY-leb

    Meaning

    Faithful; Wholehearted

    Hebrew origin · Boy · First in Numbers

    What it points to

    Caleb's name embodies wholehearted devotion to God. His life teaches that faith doesn't diminish with age — those who follow God fully will receive their promised inheritance.

    Verses · King James Version

    “And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.”

    Numbers 13:30

    “As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now.”

    Joshua 14:11

    Most used in the 2000s (US records)

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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