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    Ulysses

    yoo-LIS-eez

    Meaning

    Wrathful; Wounded; Traveler

    Latin/Greek origin · Boy

    What it points to

    Ulysses is the pilgrim journeying home — a stranger on earth, eyes fixed on the Father's house with many mansions.

    Verses · King James Version

    “In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”

    John 14:2

    “These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”

    Hebrews 11:13

    Most used in the 1890s (US records)

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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