A name from Scripture
Odessa
oh-DES-ah
Meaning
Long journey; Wrathful; Odyssey
Greek origin · Girl
What it points to
Odessa endures to the end — weights laid aside, race run with patience, surrounded by witnesses, the traveler saved by perseverance.
Verses · King James Version
“But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”
Matthew 24:13
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.”
Hebrews 12:1