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Elyon or El Elyon (Hebrew: אֵל עֶלְיוֹן ʼĒl ʻElyōn), is an epithet that appears in the Hebrew Bible. ʾĒl ʿElyōn is usually rendered in English as "God Most High", and similarly in the Septuagint as ὁ Θεός ὁ ὕψιστος ("God the highest").
Also abbreviated Jah, the most common name of God in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton, יהוה, which is usually transliterated as YHWH. The Hebrew script is an abjad, and thus vowels are often omitted in writing. YHWH is usually expanded to Yahweh in English. [11] Modern Rabbinical Jewish culture judges it forbidden to pronounce this name.
Élodie is a French feminine given name, a variant of Alodia, possibly a Gothic name with elements Ala "other, foreign"(?) and od "wealth, heritage". The given name was popularized via veneration of Saint Alodia , a 9th-century child martyr.
Another canonical Bible passage concerning a giant at Gath and his children, likely the Anakim, is sometimes alleged to refer to the Elioud (who in that account have six fingers on each hand and each foot), although in context, these references to giants appear to refer instead to the Philistines.
El is the name of a Semitic deity that is used in the Bible as a name for the god of the Israelites, and -i is the suffix for the genitive form ("mine"). In the United States, the popularity of the given name Eli was hovering around rank 200 in the 1880s. It declined gradually during the late 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries, falling below ...
In the Hebrew Bible, Melchizedek (/mɛlˈkɪzədɛk/, Mel-key-za-deck) [a] was the king of Salem and priest of El Elyon (often translated as 'most high God'). He is first mentioned in Genesis 14:18–20, [3] where he brings out bread and wine and then blesses Abram, and El Elyon or "the Lord, God Most High".
A Republican county official on Long Island is refusing to lower flags to half-staff following the death of former President Jimmy Carter.
The Hebrew Bible uses various names for the God of Israel. [ 75 ] : 102 According to the documentary hypothesis , these variations are the products of different source texts and narratives that constitute the composition of the Torah : Elohim is the name of God used in the Elohist (E) and Priestly (P) sources, while Yahweh is the name of God ...