Please explain what the name really means and where you got your answer. I've already tried wikipedia and wasn't happy with their answer. I'd love to hear from someone who is truely knowledgable on the subject of the Old Covenant names of God. Feel free to tell me as many of them as you know and their true meanings. Thanks
2006-10-24 20:22:24 · 11 answers · asked by pwacheri 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Johnny Cee, I know the song by heart, actually it was going through my mind today. I remember singing it back in the 80's when it first came out. The thing is, I have heard many different deffinitions for El Shaddai and was hoping that someone would have a strong definative answer for me. Thanks for your answer, I appreciate your help.
2006-10-24 20:39:04 · update #1
It is usually translated as "God Almighty." El means God. Shaddai is sometimes said to mean a Mountain, and so sometimes it is said that El Shaddai means God of the Mountains. This might refer to the fact that God was seen by Moses on Mt. Sinai.
2006-10-24 20:25:01 · answer #1 · answered by Developing Love 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Shaddai means Almighty and El Shaddai means God Almighty.
2006-10-24 20:34:52 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
EL means GOD-( mighty-strong-prominent)
Gen 7:1 & Isa 9:6
EL Shaddai means:( God Almighty or God all sufficient) Gen 49:24 & Micah 2:1
Hope this answers your question
2006-10-24 20:35:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason you are talking about "Native Americans" instead of a tribe. Do you really think when the first immigrants from the east came to America, they said, "Hey, we are Native Americans and all the immigrants from the west aren't?" And shouldn't everyone find the fact that the US is the only country in the world that has allowed others to live inside their borders and not assimilate? As all countries have a people who where there first, in what other country does that give them rights? Can you imagine a group of people demanding these rights in North Korea or China where the "Native American's" immigrated from because no anthropologist says "Native Americans" are indigenous to the Americas and specifically to the US. Nor can you look to the other side of the other pond and find this concept that those who immigrated first have special rights. And looking at the Inca, Aztec, Mayan,, and other "Native American" cultures, they surely didn't practice what you are currently preaching. So by all means, name another country or street gang that you could say was doing a better job with their "Native _____" so that we might learn from them. Hope this helps
2016-03-18 23:49:22 · answer #4 · answered by Frank 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"El Shaddai" is a title identifying Jehovah.
A person may have the title "Worlds Greatest Athlete" but that is not his name.
This title of God Almighty in the bible only refers to Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob.
At Gen. 4:1 shows that Eve knew the name of Jehovah.
2006-10-25 05:37:13 · answer #5 · answered by TeeM 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
El Shaddai is the mountain god. The name comes from before Judaism and refers to El, the father of all the other gods (the Elohim). His favourite son is the one usually referred to as Ba'al Hadad, the storm God with lightning and Bulls Horns (also a god of fertility, possibly by association with rainstorms for crops) usually associated with the golden calf.
El (shaddai) fills about the same position as Zeus
2006-10-24 20:35:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The God that is more than enough. The all sufficient one. The Breasty one. Check out the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfboU8LSODk
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2006-10-24 20:32:56 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seems very thorough to me!
The name Shaddai (Hebrew: שַׁדַּי), which occurs both independently and in combination with El, is used as a name of God chiefly in the Book of Job. According to Exodus 6:2, 3, this is the name by which God was known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In the Septuagint and other early translation it was translated with words meaning 'Almighty'.
The root word "shadad" (שדד) means "to overpower" or "to destroy". This would give Shaddai the meaning of "destroyer" as one of the aspects of God. Compare to "Shiva," the destroyer in the Hindu trinity, "creator, preserver, destroyer".
Another theory is that 'Shaddai' is a derivation of a Semitic stem that appears in the Akkadian shadû, 'mountain', and shaddā`û or shaddû`a, 'mountain-dweller'. This theory was popularized by W. F. Albright but was somewhat weakened when it was noticed that the doubling of the medial d is first documented only in the Neo-Assyrian period. However, the doubling in Hebrew might possibly be secondary. In this theory God is seen as inhabiting a mythical holy mountain: a concept not unknown in ancient near eastern mythology (see El), and also evident in the Syriac Christian writings of Ephrem the Syrian, who places Eden on an inaccessible mountaintop.
An alternative view proposed by Albright is that the name is connected to shadayim which means breasts in Hebrew. It may thus be connected to the notion of God’s fertility and blessings of the human race. In several instances it is connected with fruitfulness: “May God Almighty [El Shaddai] bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers . . .” (Gen. 28:3). “I am God Almighty [El Shaddai]: be fruitful and increase in number” (Gen. 35:11). “By the Almighty [El Shaddai] who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts [shadayim] and of the womb [racham] ” (Gen. 49:25).
It is also given a Midrashic interpretation as an acronym standing for 'Guardian of the Doors of Israel' (Hebrew: שׁוֹמֶר דְלָתוֹת יִשְׂרָאֶל), which is commonly found as carvings or writings upon the Mezuzah, a vessel which houses a scroll of parchment with Biblical text written on it, that is situated upon all the doorframes in a home or establishment.
Shaddai was also a late Bronze age, Amorite city on the banks of the Euphrates river, in northern Syria. The site of its ruin-mound is called Tell eth-Thadyen: "Thadyen" being the modern Arabic rendering of the original West Semitic "Shaddai." It has been conjectured that El Shaddai was therefore the "god of Shaddai" and associated in tradition with Abraham, and the inclusion of the Abraham stories into the Hebrew Bible may have brought the northern name with them
2006-10-24 20:27:35 · answer #8 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
EL=ALMIGHTY GOD
SHADDAI= ALL SUFFICENCY
2006-10-24 20:28:40 · answer #9 · answered by funnana 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pwacheri,
I've also heard it translated, "The Many Breasted One."
2006-10-24 20:27:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋