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    Nigel

    NY-jul

    Meaning

    Dark; Champion; Cloud

    Latin/English origin · Boy

    What it points to

    Nigel brings light to darkness — great light shining, shadow of death illuminated, the champion who proves that darkness cannot comprehend the light.

    Verses · King James Version

    “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.”

    Isaiah 9:2

    “And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”

    John 1:5

    Most used in the 1990s (US records)

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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