new name. A change of name was often given in the
case of serious illness. If the patient survived, the new name bore a reference
to life or to some OT saint whose life was especially long. A new name,
therefore, denoted a new person: it was often theophoric, i.e. compounded with
a name of God. (J. Massyngberde Ford, Revelation: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary [AYB 38; New Haven: Yale University Press,
2008], 399)
