A name from Scripture
Galway
GAWL-way
Meaning
Stony river; Foreign Gaul
Irish origin · Boy
What it points to
Galway flows from stone — rocks cleft in wilderness, water from the depths, provision struck from impossible places by God's hand.
Verses · King James Version
“He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.”
Psalm 78:15
“Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it.”
Exodus 17:6