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Biblical proper names are not transliterated, but their Biblical form is adopted; other names are transliterated according to the rules of transliteration. Hence the reader will notice a change in such names as Mecca which should be written as Makkah, Medina which should be written as Madinah, Yemen which should be written as Yaman, and so on.

The following list shows the Biblical names and their Arabic equivalents:

Biblical Name — Arabic Form

Aaron — Harun

Abraham — Ibrahim

Adam — Adam

Amran — ‘Imran

Babel — Babil

David — Dawud

Egypt — Misr

Elias — Ilyas

Ezra — ‘Uzairl

Elisha — Al-Yash‘a

Gabriel — Jibril

Gog — Ya’juj

Goliath — Jalut

Gospel — Injil

Isaac — Ishaq

Ishmael — Isma‘il

Jacob — Ya‘qub

Jesus — ‘Isa

Jew — Yahudi

Job — Ayyub

John — Yahya

Jonah — Yunus

Korah — Qarun

Lot — Lut

Magog — Ma’juj

Mary — Maryam

Michael — Mika

Moses — Musa

Noah — Nuh

Pharaoh — Fir‘aun

Saul — Talut

Sheba — Saba’

Solomon — Sulaiman

Torah — Taurat

Zacharias — Zakariyya