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    Geneva

    jeh-NEE-vah

    Meaning

    Juniper tree; White wave; Race of women

    French/Celtic origin · Girl

    What it points to

    Geneva is the juniper of rest — the weary sleeping, the angel touching, the place where exhausted servants receive divine provision and a gentle word.

    Verses · King James Version

    “But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die... And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him.”

    1 Kings 19:4-5

    “And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.”

    Psalm 55:6

    Most used in the 1920s (US records)

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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