Mar 5:9 What [is] your name?

Christ asks this question of the unclean spirit but as always I will analyze as if Christ is addressing all his words to all of us.

This raises the question of what Christ concept of a "name." Christ says that his Father's name is worth of worship, but the Father's name has a meaning, in Hebrew, it means "the being of existence" or the existence of being," which is more of a concept than a name.

In this case, the demon's name, legion (in Greek legeôn (legeon)), also has the very specific meaning of a certain size body of troops (6826 men, 6100 foot soldiers and 726 horsemen), but the sense is a troop of warrior's so large that they have no distinct individual identities.

But what is a "name" for a regular person? The Greek concept was that name was your social reputation. This was separate from the real spirit of the person. It was "just a name." The assumption was that a social reputation wasn't the real person.

Christ's system however is different. For Christ there is the four levels of spiritual, physical, intellectual, and emotional/social. The Greek sense of name exists only on the "emotional/social" level as the reputation and relationship, but the names of God and this demon exist on every level: the spiritual, physical, intellectual, and emotional/social.

In asking this question, is Christ suggesting that we each have names on all four levels as well? Names that we don't even know?

"What" is from tis, which can mean "someone," "any one," "everyone," "many a one," "whoever," and so on. In a question, it can mean "who," or "what."

"Name" is from onoma, which means "name." It means both the reputation of "fame," and "a name and nothing else," as opposed to a real person.