One of the most well-known passages in Shakespeare’'s Romeo and Juliet can be found in the second scene of the second act. As the story opens, Juliet is lamenting the fact that her parents (the Capulets) intensely dislike the parents of her lover, Romeo (the Montagues).

In an attempt to play down the situation, she sighs: “What’s Montague? It is not hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

Thus, to Juliet, a person’s name meant little or nothing. This is, however, decidedly not the case as one approaches the Bible. In fact, to the contrary, one may learn a great deal about a person simply by examining the names ascribed to him or her. This is especially true concerning the names for God.

These four main names for God are: Elohim, El, Adonai, and Jehovah.