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    Vance

    VANS

    Meaning

    Marshland; From the fen

    English origin · Boy

    What it points to

    Vance is the wilderness transformed — dry ground made into watersprings, the desert blossoming as a rose, God's abundance where there was nothing.

    Verses · King James Version

    “He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.”

    Psalm 107:35

    “The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.”

    Isaiah 35:1

    Most used in the 1960s (US records)

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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