El Shaddai
El Shaddai is a divine name (Biblical Hebrew: אֵל שַׁדַּי, romanized: ʾĒl Šadday), a potential reference to God as the "god of the steppe". It may also derive from the cultural beliefs of Upper Mesopotamian immigrants (i.e., Amorites)—who may have been ancestors of the Israelites.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in Bronze Age Mesopotamia.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- El Elyon, El Olam, Šd-Yrḥ, shaddayin, šēdim, Amurru, Elion, Beruth, ʽElyōn, Sed, El, Leviathan, Shaddai, Asherah
- syncretized with
- Esaldaios
- equivalent to
- Yahweh
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“The divine name El Shaddai (Biblical Hebrew: אֵל שַׁדַּי, romanized: ʾĒl Šadday), a potential reference to God as the "god of the steppe", may also derive from the cultural beliefs of Upper Mesopotamian immigrants (i.e., Amorites)—who may have been ancestors of the Israelites.”
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“W. F. Albright, for example, says that El Shaddai is a derivation of a Semitic stem that appears in the Akkadian shadû ('mountain') and shaddā'û or shaddû'a ('mountain-dweller'), one of the names of Amurru. Philo of Byblos states that Atlas was one of the elohim, which would clearly fit into the story of El Shaddai as "God of the Mountain(s)".”
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“According to the biblical chronology it is El Shaddai who ordains the custom of circumcision in Genesis 17:1 and, as is apparent in midrash Tanhuma Tzav 14 (cf. a parallel passages in Tazri‘a 5 and Shemini 5) the brit milah itself is the inscription of the part of the name on the body”
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