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    Elwin

    EL-win

    Meaning

    Elf friend; Noble friend

    Anglo-Saxon origin · Boy

    What it points to

    Elwin is called friend by Jesus — servants no more, all things revealed, greater love demonstrated, the noble friend who knows the Father's heart.

    Verses · King James Version

    “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.”

    John 15:15

    “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

    John 15:13

    Most used in the 1910s (US records)

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