This Is The Longest Name In The Bible
According to Oxford Reference, the longest name and word in the Old Testament – and the Bible as a whole — comes in Isaiah 8. In the narrative, God commands the prophet to impregnate a woman and, when she gives birth to a son, name him "Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz." The phrase is a saying in Hebrew that means something akin to "swift are the spoils, speedy is the plunder," per BabyNames.com.
So how did a strapping baby boy wind up with a name that's actually a sentence about military conquest?
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