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Exodus 6:3

Exodus 6:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

God Almighty: El shadday:, God Almighty; for shadday: is evidently of affinity with the Arabic shadid:, strong, mighty, and shiddat:, strength, might; so the LXX in Job render it παντοκρατωρ:, Vulgate, in Pentateuch, Omnipotens:, and Syriac, in Job, chasino:. , , ,

but by my name: If Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, did not know the name Jehovah, then Moses must have used it in Genesis by prolepsis, or anticipation. Mr. Locke and others read it interrogatively, for the negative particle, lo:, not, has frequently this power in Hebrew: "I appeared unto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, and by my name Jehovah was I not also made known unto them?"

Jehovah: ; , , ; , JAH, ; , , ; ;

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