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A popular interpretation of the name Shaddai is that it is composed of the Hebrew relative particle she-(Shin plus vowel segol followed by dagesh), or, as in this case, as sha-(Shin plus vowel patach followed by a dagesh). [27] The noun containing the dagesh is the Hebrew word dai meaning "enough, sufficient, sufficiency". [28]
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.
This is a list of English words of Hebrew origin.Transliterated pronunciations not found in Merriam-Webster or the American Heritage Dictionary follow Sephardic/Modern Israeli pronunciations as opposed to Ashkenazi pronunciations, with the major difference being that the letter taw (ת ) is transliterated as a 't' as opposed to an 's'.
Dayenu page from Birds' Head Haggada. Dayenu (Hebrew: דַּיֵּנוּ , Dayyēnū) is a song that is part of the Jewish holiday of Passover.The word "dayenu" means approximately "it would have been enough," "it would have been sufficient," or "it would have sufficed" (day-in Hebrew is "enough," and -ēnu the first person plural suffix, "to us").
The Hebrew word for 'god' is El, which also as a proper noun referred to the chief deity in ancient Semitic religions. In the Hebrew Bible, God is also given a personal name, Yahweh, in contrast to the genetic name, and in origin possibly the name of an Edomite or Midianite deity who was adopted into ancient Israelite religion. [11]
Sacred Name Bibles are Bible translations that consistently use Hebraic forms of the God of Israel's personal name, instead of its English language translation, in both the Old and New Testaments. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Some Bible versions , such as the Jerusalem Bible , employ the name Yahweh , a transliteration of the Hebrew tetragrammaton (YHWH), in ...
Allah—meaning 'the God' in Arabic—is the word for God in Islam. [37] The word Allah has been used by Arabic people of different religions since pre-Islamic times. More specifically, it has been used as a term for God by Muslims (both Arab and non-Arab) and Arab Christians. God has many names in Islam.
It means "name of God", deriving from the Hebrew Shem (שֵׁם) (which means "name") [2] + ʾĒl (which means "God" or "deity"). [3] However, from the explanation given in 1 Samuel 1:20 , the name could alternatively come from a contraction of the Hebrew שְׁאִלְתִּיו מֵאֵל ( Modern: Šəʾīltīv mēʾĒl, Tiberian ...