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The name Elyon (עליון) occurs in combination with El, YHWH, Elohim and alone. It appears chiefly in poetic and later Biblical passages. The modern Hebrew adjective 'Elyon means 'supreme' (as in "Supreme Court": Hebrew: בית המשפט העליון) or 'Most High'. El Elyon has been
El means "God" in the Ugaritic and the Canaanite languages. The literal meaning of Shaddai, ... shaddai is a typical Biblical Hebrew ... Yahweh. [18] The term "El ...
The manuscripts of the Septuagint and other Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible that are pre-Christian or contemporary to the Apostolic Age present the tetragrammaton in Hebrew within the Greek text [153] [172] or use the Greek transliteration ΙΑΩ , which, according to Wilkinson, may have been the original practice before a Hebraicizing ...
In addition to the personal name of God YHWH (pronounced with the vocalizations Yahweh or Jehovah), titles of God used by Christians include the Hebrew titles Elohim, El-Shaddai, and Adonai, as well as Ancient of Days, Father/Abba which is Hebrew, "Most High". [18]
Yahweh [a] was an ancient Levantine deity worshiped in Israel and Judah as the primary deity of the polytheistic religion of Yahwism. [4] [5] Though no consensus exists regarding the deity's origins, [6] scholars generally contend that he is associated with Seir, Edom, Paran and Teman, [7] and later with Canaan.
The following is an alphabetical list of names referring to Yah/Yahweh and their meanings in Hebrew: Abiah – Yahweh is my father Abijah – Yahweh is my father (2 Chron. 13:3) Adaiah – ornament of Yahweh Adonijah – my lord is Yahweh Ahaziah – vision of Yahweh Ahiah – brother of Yahweh Ahijah – brother of Yahweh
El Shaddai – "God Almighty" Elohim – a grammatically singular or plural noun for "god" or "gods" in both modern and ancient Hebrew language. Asherah – a Semitic mother goddess, the wife or consort of the Sumerian Anu or Ugaritic El , the oldest deities of their pantheons
Amplified Bible (1954, 1987), generally uses L ORD, but translates Exodus 6:3 as: "I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty [El-Shaddai], but by My name the L ORD [Yahweh—the redemptive name of God] I did not make Myself known to them [in acts and great miracles]."