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    Irving

    UR-ving

    Meaning

    Green water; Fresh water friend

    Scottish/Welsh origin · Boy

    What it points to

    Irving is the river of life — clear as crystal, proceeding from God's throne, everything living wherever it flows.

    Verses · King James Version

    “And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.”

    Revelation 22:1

    “Every thing shall live whither the river cometh.”

    Ezekiel 47:9

    Most used in the 1910s (US records)

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