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Memra d'Adonai – 'The Word of the L ORD ' (plus variations such as 'My Word') – restricted to the Aramaic Targums (the written Tetragrammaton is represented in various ways such as YYY, YWY, YY, but pronounced as the Hebrew Adonai) Mi She'amar V'haya Ha`olam – 'He who spoke, and the world came into being'.
The pluralization of adon "my lord" is adonai "my lords." [2] Otto Eissfeldt theorizes that adonai is a post positive element attested to in Ugaritic writing.He points to the myth of the struggle between Baal and Yam as evidence.
Or Adonai (Hebrew: אור אֲדֹנָי), The Light of the Lord, is the primary work of Rabbi Hasdai Crescas (c. 1340 - 1410/1411), a Jewish philosopher. As some Jews prefer to not use even the respectful title Adonai (Lord) other than in prayer (see names of God in Judaism ), the book is sometimes called Or Hashem (אור השם) in verbal ...
The English form Jehovah (יְהֹוָה , Yəhōwā) was formed during the Middle Ages by combining the Latinization of the four consonants YHWH with the vowel points that Masoretes used to indicate that the reader should say Adonai when YHWH was encountered. [16] Thus Jehovah was obtained by adding the vowels of Adonai to the consonants of ...
Adonai: often translated as "L ORD", it is read in place of the YHWH written in the Hebrew text; Samaritans say Shema, which is Aramaic for "the [Divine] Name" and is the exact equivalent of the Hebrew ha-Shem, which Rabbinic Jews substitute for Adonai in a non-liturgical context such as everyday speech.
This word is related to Adonai (Hebrew: אֲדֹנָי), one of the titles used to refer to the God of the Hebrew Bible and still used in Judaism to the present day. [7] The Syrian name for Adonis is Gauas. [8] The cult of Inanna and Dumuzid may have been introduced to the Kingdom of Judah during the reign of King Manasseh. [9]
This is a set of vowels used rarely in the Masoretic Text, and are essentially the vowels from Adonai (with the hataf patakh reverting to its natural state as a shewa). Judges 16:28: יֱהֹוִה Yĕhōwih [71] When the Tetragrammaton is preceded by Adonai, it receives the vowels from the name Elohim instead.
There are various names of God, many of which enumerate the various qualities of a Supreme Being. The English word god (and its equivalent in other languages) is used by multiple religions as a noun to refer to different deities, or specifically to the Supreme Being, as denoted in English by the capitalized and uncapitalized terms God and god. [1]