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[b-hebrew] The Name El Shaddai

From: Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
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Subject: [b-hebrew] The Name El Shaddai
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 16:11:03 -0700 (PDT)

Chavoux Luyt chavoux at gmail.com
Thu May 2 05:58:31 EDT 2013

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Hello,

Many scholars chose your 3rd possibility : God of the
Mountains, or who dwells in the heights. This follows
the Akkadian; Albright was the first to suggest this,
I think.

Uri Hurwitz

"El Shaddai"

.... The term "Shaddai" has been related to 3 possible origins (that I
know of):
1. Shadad, (שדד) means "to overpower" or "to destroy" (possibly from an
original meaning of "strong")
2. Shadaiym (שָׁדַיִם) meaning "breasts" and pointing to His provision
3. Sadeh (שדה) meaning "veld" or mountain (from Akkadian?) (also connected
to His provision for pastoralists from the veld)

Chavoux Luyt

[b-hebrew] The Name El Shaddai, Uri Hurwitz, 05/02/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] The Name El Shaddai, Isaac Fried, 05/02/2013