A name from Scripture
Cressida
KRES-ih-dah
Meaning
Gold; Golden one
Greek origin · Girl
What it points to
Cressida comes forth as gold — tried, refined, the way known by God, the golden one who emerges from fire purer than she entered.
Verses · King James Version
“But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.”
Job 23:10
“And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried.”
Zechariah 13:9