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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]
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").
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.
In Judaism, some of the Hebrew titles of God are considered holy names. Allāh (Arabic: الله) is the Arabic term with no plural used by Muslims and Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews meaning 'the God', while ʾilāh (إِلَٰه, plural `āliha آلِهَة) is the term used for a deity or a god in general.
According to the Hebrew Bible, in the encounter of the burning bush (Exodus 3:14), Moses asks what he is to say to the Israelites when they ask what gods have sent him to them, and YHWH replies, "I am who I am", adding, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I am has sent me to you. ' " [4] Despite this exchange, the Israelites are never written to have asked Moses for the name of God. [13]
The 23rd psalm, in which this phrase appears, uses the image of God as a shepherd and the believer as a sheep well cared-for. Julian Morgenstern has suggested that the word translated as "cup" could contain a double meaning: both a "cup" in the normal sense of the word, and a shallow trough from which one would give water to a sheep. [4]
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]
The words used in the Shema prayer are similar to the words of verse 1 of Sura 112 (Al-Tawhid or Monotheism) in the Quran: Arabic: قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ, qul huwa llāhu ʾaḥad ("Say, He is God the One"). The word أَحَدٌ, aḥad, in Arabic is a cognate of the word אֶחָד , eḥad, in Hebrew. [46]