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  • From: ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben Crick)
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: RE: b-hebrew digest: August 22, 2000
  • Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:11:22 +0100


On Thu 24 Aug 2000 (11:28:41), wross AT farmerstel.com wrote:
> In my mind, I loosely translate e:LoHiYM as "supreme(s)", and context says
> whether that is God, gods, judges, or what have you. Doesn't EL have to do
> with "high"?

Hi Bill!

You may well be right; but to my mind "God Most High" is 'eL `eL:YoWN in
Genesis 14:18 and many other places (from the root `aLaH, to ascend or go up
on high). Abra[ha]m identified 'eL `eL:YoWN with YHWH (Gen 14:22). Thus He is
distinguished from the 'gods many and lords many' of the Canaanites /et al./,
the Ba`aLiYM or /numines loci/. The LXX has hO QEOS hO hUYISTOS. Compare the
use of hUYOW in John 3:14 and elsewhere.

We have had long threads in the past on the meanings of 'eL, 'eLIYM and
'e:LoHiYM. See the archives...

Shalom
Ben
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