Bible Name

Biblical Name	Meaning or History	Gender
Alon (Allon) אַלּוֹן	Oak.
Amnon אַמְנוֹן	The flower’s name אמנון ותמר (Amnon ve-Tamar, “pansy”) is called after Amnon, son of David, and his sister Tamar.
Diklah (Dikla) דִּקְלָה	A girl’s name (in the Bible: a boy’s name). The name "דקלה" may be derived of the word "דֶּקֶל" (dekel, "palm tree").
Eshcol (Eshkol) אֶשְׁכּוֹל	bunch, cluster (of grapes, etc.). Eshcol is also a name of a brook near Hebron: "And they came unto the brook of Eshcol and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff" (Numbers 13, 23).
Hadassah (Hadasa) הֲדַסָּה	Myrtle.
Jarah (Yaara, Ya'ara) יַעְרָה (יַעֲרָה)	A girl’s name (in the Bible: a boy’s name). Its meanning is: (bees') honeycomb; honeysuckle (the plant).
Oren אֹרֶן (אורן)	Pine tree.
Rimmon (Rimon) רִמּוֹן (רימון)	Pomegranate.
Shamir שָׁמִיר	Dill (plant); emery (stone); in the Biblical time: a name of a city in the mountains of Judah; today: a name of a kibbutz in the Galilee.
Tamar תָּמָר	Palm tree; date.
Zuph (Tsuf, Tzuf, Tsoof) צוּף	Nectar, honeydew.

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