Berean

Meaning

Noun

• An inhabitant of the ancient city of Berea in what is now northern Greece.
• A member of an 18th-century Scottish Protestant sect who derived all knowledge of God from the Bible.

Origin

• Berea + -an. Protestants adopted the name in reference to the Bible, Acts 17: "These [Berea] were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily whether those things were so."