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Elohim (Hebrew: ... The word el (singular) is a standard term for "god" in Aramaic, ... with Elohim at the top. In the Jahwist version of the tale, Yahweh is simply ...
Elah (Hebrew: אֱלָה, romanized: ʾelāh, pl. Elim or Elohim; Imperial Aramaic: אלהא) is the Aramaic word for God and the absolute singular form of אלהא, ʾilāhā. The origin of the word is from Proto-Semitic *ʔil and is thus cognate to the Hebrew, Arabic, Akkadian, and other Semitic languages' words for god.
Surviving Aramaic Targums do use the verb šbq in their translations of the Psalm 22. [4] The word used in the Gospel of Mark for my god, Ἐλωΐ, corresponds to the Aramaic form אלהי, elāhī. The one used in Matthew, Ἠλί, fits in better with the אלי of the original Hebrew Psalm, but the form is attested abundantly in Aramaic as well.
Elahi (אֱלָהִי ) is an Aramaic word meaning "My God". [1] Elah means "god", [2] with the suffix -i meaning "my." Being Aramaic and not Hebrew (there is no singular possessive for "god" in Biblical Hebrew), in the Old Testament, Elahi is found only in the books of Ezra and Daniel. [2]
Ancient cognate equivalents for the biblical Hebrew Elohim, one of the most common names of God in the Bible, [2] include proto-Semitic El, biblical Aramaic Elah, and Arabic ilah. [2] The personal or proper name for God in many of these languages may either be distinguished from such attributes, or homonymic.
Some translators of Sacred Name Bibles hold to the view that the New Testament, or significant portions of it, were originally written in a Semitic language, Hebrew or Aramaic, from which the Greek text is a translation. [citation needed] This view is colloquially known as "Aramaic primacy", and is also taken by some academics, such as Matthew ...
Pavlos D. Vasileiadis continues and cites to Muraoka, A Greek-Hebrew Aramaic Two-way Index to the Septuagint (72), and believes that kurios cannot be a synonym for YHWH: "Bearing in mind that κύριος in the late LXX copies is used to render more than twenty corresponding Hebrew (HB) terms or term combinations of the HB, in a similar manner ...
Sons of God (Biblical Hebrew: בְנֵי־הָאֱלֹהִים, romanized: Bənē hāʾĔlōhīm, [1] literally: "the sons of Elohim" [2]) is a phrase used in the Tanakh or Old Testament and in Christian Apocrypha. The phrase is also used in Kabbalah where bene elohim are part of different Jewish angelic hierarchies.