El Shaddai
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Lexham Survey of Theology God’s Titles
God says to Abraham early in the biblical story, “I am God Almighty” (Gen 17:1). And believers picked up the title. Jacob refers several times to “God Almighty” (Gen 43:14; 48:3; 49:25). Naomi and many other biblical characters and writers call God simply “the Almighty” (Ruth 1:20). Job uses that title repeatedly (6:4; etc.). The title is sparse in the New Testament until Revelation, in which the saints often call God by the title “Almighty” (Rev 4:8; 11:17; 15:3; 16:7; etc.).
1 Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you.
2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
4 So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Abraham began to Doubt the LORD’s Promise
Abraham began to Doubt the LORD’s Promise
2 But Abram said, “Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
3 Then Abram said, “Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!”
4 And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir.”
Abraham and Sarah Devise a Plan to fulfill the LORD’s Promise
Abraham and Sarah Devise a Plan to fulfill the LORD’s Promise
1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar.
2 So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing children. Please, go in to my maid; perhaps I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai.
3 Then Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan.
4 So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress became despised in her eyes.
1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.
2 And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”
3 Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying:
4 “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.
5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.
6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.
7 And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.
In this context, God is speaking to Abram concerning the covenant He had made. God’s promise to carry out His covenant and the command for obedience and faithfulness (Our Part)
The LORD’s (Yahweh) Self-Designation
The LORD’s (Yahweh) Self-Designation
Name” in biblical usage correctly describes the person, place, or object and indicates the essential character of that to which the name is given.
Gerard Van Groningen, “God, Names Of,” Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1988), 880.
1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.
El is short of Elohim
El is short of Elohim
Root = to swear; name indicates God, under the covenant of an oath with Himself to perform certain conditions (Hebrews 6:13). Name implies: One in covenant; Fullness of might. Refers to absolute, unqualified, unlimited energy. A plural name revealing God in the unity and trinity of all His divine personality and power. STRONG CREATOR
Stelman Smith and Judson Cornwall, The Exhaustive Dictionary of Bible Names (North Brunswick, NJ: Bridge-Logos, 1998), 82.
Shaddai
Shaddai
Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament 2333 שַׁדַּי
The rabbinic analysis of this word is that it is a compound word composed of the relative še, “who” and the word day, “enough” še-day, “the one who is (self-) sufficient”
16 You shall drink the milk of the Gentiles, And milk the breast of kings; You shall know that I, the Lord, am your Savior And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem, And be glad with her, all you who love her; Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn for her;
11 That you may feed and be satisfied With the consolation of her bosom, That you may drink deeply and be delighted With the abundance of her glory.”
3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.”
5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
18 who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”