A name from Scripture
Dashiel
DASH-el
Meaning
From the ash tree; Heaven
French origin · Boy
What it points to
Dashiel bends but does not break — troubled but not distressed, cast down but not destroyed, the ash tree whose flexibility comes from divine sustaining.
Verses · King James Version
“A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.”
Isaiah 42:3
“We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.”
2 Corinthians 4:8-9