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June 28, 2012—SnyderTalk Editorial: Other Names for Yahweh

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Other Names for Yahweh

The exhibit below presents several Names for Yahweh and their meanings.[i]  Each Name reveals an attribute of His character.  For example, He is Elohim (God), Adonai (Lord), and El Shaddai (God Almighty).  But His Name is Yahweh.  Further, Yahweh will share the title “god” with anything—even a piece of wood or a rock.  He will share the title “lord” with anyone.  Some of the most evil people in the history of the world were called “lord.”  But Yahweh will not share His Divine Name with anyone.  In due course, the importance of distinguishing between Yahweh and any so-called “god” will become obvious to everyone.  There is One God, and His Name is Yahweh.

Exhibit: Several Names for Yahweh Found in the Bible

  • Elohim—Strong One.  It is used when referring to Yahweh or to a pagan god.  When it refers to Yahweh, it is translated as “God,” and when it refers to a pagan god it is translated as “god.”  Elohim is a plural word that suggests majesty.
  • Adonai—Lord or Master of all.  It is used when referring to Yahweh or to men.  When it refers to Yahweh, it is translated as “Lord,” and when it refers to men it is translated as “lord.”  Adonai suggests a master-servant relationship.
  • El Gibbor—Mighty God.  A powerful Warrior God who protects and defends His people.
  • El Elyon—God Most High or strongest Strong One.
  • El Roi—the Strong One who sees.
  • El Shaddai—Almighty God.  It means sufficient or enough and refers to God as the One who sets constraints or limits in the universe.[ii]
  • El Olam—Everlasting God.
  • Yahweh Yireh—Yahweh will provide.
  • Yahweh Nissi—Yahweh our Banner.
  • Yahweh Shalom—Yahweh our Peace.
  • Yahweh Sabaoth—This Name is translated in most Bibles as “LORD of hosts,” and it refers to Yahweh as the Leader of a great army.  The Tanach interprets this Name as “HASHEM Master of Legions.”
  • Yahweh Maccaddeshcem—Yahweh our Sanctifier.
  • Yahweh Raah—Yahweh our Shepherd.
  • Yahweh Tsidkenu—Yahweh our Righteousness.
  • Yahweh El Gmolah—Yahweh God of Recompense or Yahweh our Reward.
  • Yahweh Shammah—Yahweh who is present.
  • Yahweh Raphah—Yahweh our Healer.  A literal translation of this Name is Yahweh our doctor.

This is an excerpt from His Name is Yahweh.  It explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important.  It’s a book that you need to read and share.  It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.

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[i] Most of these Names for Yahweh are listed in Charles Ryrie’s Ryrie Study Bible Expanded Edition, Moody Press, Chicago, 1995, pp. 2057-2058.

[ii] Scherman, Rabbi Nosson, The Stone Edition Tanach, The ArtScroll Series®, Mesorah Publications, Brooklyn, New York, 1996, p. 145.

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Ezekiel 4: 9-17

“But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days.  Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.  The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.  You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung.”  Then Yahweh said, “Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will banish them.”  But I said, “Ah, Adonai Yahweh! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth.”  Then He said to me, “See, I will give you cow’s dung in place of human dung over which you will prepare your bread.”  Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror, because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity.”

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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important.  It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.

  • God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
  • “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
  • “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land.  In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)

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Hosea 4: 6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

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