by Natylino121 on November 21st, 2009

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What is Hebrew/Aramaic word for God?

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  • by Djinn on November 21st, 2009

    Djinn

    Adonai many say YHWH but that is actually a personal name that only Hebrews should use. +3

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  • by Natylino121 on November 23rd, 2009

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    According to what I found out these evidence is

    A) Check it here in this website (hear it with your own ears)
    http://www.learnassyrian.com/aramaic/church/church.html

    B) Also, check this Jewish website (hear it with your own ears) stating that Allah is name of God

    http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Names_of_G-d/Elah/elah.html

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  • by iwnit on November 22nd, 2009

    iwnit

    1) "The numerous names of God have been a source of debate amongst biblical scholars. Some have advanced the variety as proof that the Torah has many authors (see documentary hypothesis). It is also held that the only "name of God" in the Tanakh is Yahweh (the English rendering of YHWH), whereas words such as Elohim (God), El (mighty one), El Shaddai (almighty God), Adonai (master), El Elyon (most high God), Avinu (our Father), etc. are not names, but titles, highlighting different aspects of YHWH, and the various roles which He has. This is similar to how a man may be called by his name, or by 'Dad', 'Husband', 'Boss', 'Sir', 'Son', etc, but his personal name is the only one that can be correctly identified as his name. In the Tanakh, YHWH is the personal name of the God of Israel, whereas the other words are titles which are ascribed to Him."

    "The word El appears in other northwest Semitic languages such as Phoenician and Aramaic. In Akkadian, ilu is the ordinary word for god. It is also found in Old South Arabian and in Amharic/Ethiopian, and, as in Hebrew, it is often used as an element in proper names. In northwest Semitic texts it often appears to be used of one single god, perhaps the head of the pantheon, sometimes specifically said to be the creator.
    El (Hebrew: אל) is used in both the singular and plural, both for other gods and for the God of Israel. As a name of God, however, it is used chiefly in poetry and prophetic discourse, rarely in prose, and then usually with some epithet attached, as "a jealous God." Other examples of its use with some attribute or epithet are: El Elyon ("Most High God"), El Shaddai ("God Almighty"), El `Olam ("Everlasting God"), El Hai ("Living God"), El Ro'i ("God of Seeing"), El Elohe Israel ("God, the God of Israel"), El Gibbor ("God of Strength"). In addition, names such as Gabriel ("Strength of God"), Michael ("Who is like God?"), Raphael ("God's medicine"), "Ariel" ("God's lion"), and Daniel ("God's Judgement") and Israel ("one who has struggled with God") and Immanuel ("God is with us"), and Ishmael ("God Hears"/"God Listens") use God's name in a similar fashion."
    Source and further information:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism

    Further information:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God#Semitic_religions


    2) "ʾĒl (written aleph-lamed, i.e. אל, ����, ���� etc.) is the Northwest Semitic word for "deity", cognate to Arabic ʾilāh and Akkadian ilum.
    In the Canaanite religion, or Levantine religion as a whole, Eli or Il was the supreme god, the father of humankind and all creatures and the husband of the Goddess Asherah as attested in the tablets of Ugarit.

    The word El was found at the top of a list of gods as the Ancient of Gods or the Father of all Gods, in the ruins of the Royal Library of the Ebla civilization, in the archaeological site of Tell Mardikh in Syria dated to 2300 BC. He may have been a desert god at some point, as the myths say that he had two wives and built a sanctuary with them and his new children in the desert. El had fathered many gods, but most important were Hadad, Yam and Mot, each of whom has similar attributes to the Greek gods Zeus, Poseidon or Ophion and Hades or Thanatos respectively. Ancient Greek mythographers identified El with Cronus (not Chronos)."

    "Cognate forms are found throughout the West and East Semitic. Forms include Ugaritic ʾil, pl. ʾlm; Phoenician ʾl pl. ʾlm; Hebrew ʾēl, pl. ʾlîm; Aramaic ʾl, Arabic ʾilāh; Akkadian ilu, pl. ilāti.
    In Northwest Semitic usage ʾl was both a generic word for any "god" and the special name or title of a particular god who was distinguished from other gods as being "the god", or in the monotheistic sense, God. Ēli is listed at the head of many pantheons. Eli was the father god among the Canaanites.
    However, because the word sometimes refers to a god other than the great god Ēli, it is frequently ambiguous as to whether Ēli followed by another name means the great god Ēli with a particular epithet applied or refers to another god entirely. For example, in the Ugaritic texts ʾil mlk is understood to mean "Ēli the King" but ʾil hd as "the god Hadad".
    In Ugaritic an alternative plural form meaning "gods" is ʾilhm, equivalent to Hebrew ʾelōhîm "gods". But in Hebrew this word is also regularly used for semantically singular "God" or "god".

    The stem ʾl is found prominently in the earliest strata of east Semitic, northwest Semitic, and south Semitic groups. Personal names including the stem ʾl are found with similar patterns both in Amorite and South Arabic which indicates that probably already in Proto-Semitic ʾl was both a generic term for "god" and the common name or title of a single particular "god" or "God".
    The ordinary, non-theological form and meaning of the ʕarabī word cognate with ʕibrī /ʔēl/ is ال /ʔill/ 'pact, covenant; consanguinity'. This is, of course, a different word (having a different root) from the ʕarabī word /ʔi-lāh/."
    Source and further information:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_(deity%29

    Further information:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elahi

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  • by Sympho de Proggy on June 21st, 2010

    Sympho de Proggy

    "god" (A god, in general) - "El"
    "God" (THE God, the guy smiting ppl) - "Elohim"
    .
    in the bible god's name is Yehova.
    translated Yahweh, for some, Jehovah for others, depending on your religious fetish.

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