(Heb. Shadday’, , in pause ), an ancient name of God, rendered Almighty everywhere in the A.V. In all passages of Genesis except one (Gen 49:25), in Exo 6:3, and in Eze 10:5, it is found in connection with , el, God, El Shaddai being there rendered God Almighty, or the Almighty God. It occurs six times in Genesis (Gen 17:1; Gen 28:3; Gen 35:11; Gen 43:14; Gen 48:3; Gen 49:25), once in Exodus (Exo 6:3), twice in Numbers (Num 24:4; Num 24:16), twice in Ruth (Rth 1:20-21), thirty- one times in Job, twice in the Psalms (Psa 68:14 [15]; Psa 91:1), once in Isaiah (Isa 13:6), twice in Ezekiel (Eze 1:24; Eze 10:5), and once in Joel (Joe 1:15). In Genesis and Exodus it is found in what are called the Elohistic portions of those books, in Numbers in the Jehovistic portion, and throughout Job the name Shaddai stands in parallelism with Elohim, and never with Jehovah. By the name or in the character of El Shaddai, God was known to the patriarchs to Abraham (Gen 17:1), to Isaac (Gen 28:3), and to Jacob (Gen 43:14; Gen 48:3; Gen 49:25) before the name Jehovah, in its full significance, was revealed (Exo 6:3). By this title he was known to the Midianite Balaam (Num 24:4; Num 24:16), as God the Giver of Visions, the Most High (comp. Psa 91:1); and the identity of Jehovah and Shaddai, who dealt bitterly with her, was recognized by Naomi in her sorrow (Rth 1:20-21). Shaddai, the Almighty, is the God who chastens men (Job 5:17; Job 6:4; Job 23:16; Job 27:2); the just God (Job 8:3; Job 34:10), who hears prayer (Job 8:5; Job 22:26; Job 27:10); the God of power who cannot be resisted (Job 15:25), who punishes the wicked (Job 21:20; Job 27:13), and rewards and protects those who trust in him (Job 22:23; Job 22:25; Job 29:5); the God of providence (Job 22:17; Job 22:23; Job 27:11) and of foreknowledge (Job 24:1), who gives to men understanding (Job 32:8) and life (Job 33:4): excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice, whom none can perfectly know (Job 11:7; Job 37:23). The prevalent idea attaching to the name in all these passages is that of strength and power, and our translators have probably given to Shaddai its true meaning when they rendered it Almighty.<\/p>\n
In the Targum throughout, the Hebrew word is retained, as in the Peshito- Syriac of Genesis and Exodus, and of Rth 1:20. The Sept. gives , , , , , , (Job 8:3), (Psa 68:14 [15]), (Psa 91:1), v (Eze 10:5), and (Joel i, 15). In Job 29:5 we find the strange rendering . In Genesis and Exodus El Shaddai is translated , or , or , as the case may be. The Vulgate has omnipotens in all cases except Dominus (Job 5:17; Job 6:4; Job 6:14; Isa 13:6), Deus (Job 22:3; Job 40:2), Deus coeli (Psa 91:1), sublimis Deus (Eze 1:24), colestis (Psa 68:14 [15]), potens (Joe 1:15), and digne (Job 37:23). The Veneto-Greek has . The Peshito-Syriac, in many passages, renders Shaddai simply God, in others chasino, strong, powerful (Job 5:17; Job 6:4; etc.), and once eloyo, Most High (Job 6:14). The Samaritan version of Gen 17:1 has for El Shaddai powerful, sufficient, though in the other passages of Genesis and Exodus it simply retains the Hebrew word; while in Num 24:4; Num 24:16, the translator must have read , sadeh, a field, for he renders the vision of Shaddai the vision of the field, i.e. the vision seen in the open plain. Aben-Ezra and Kimchi render it powerful. The derivations assigned to Shaddai are various. We may mention, only to reject, the Rabbinical etymology which connects it with , dai, sufficiency, given by Rashi (on Gen 17:1), I am he in whose Godhead there is sufficiency for the whole creation; and in the Talmud (Chagiga, fol. 12, Colossians 1), I am he who said to the world, Enough! According to this, = , He who is sufficient, the all-sufficient One; and so He who is sufficient in himself, and therefore self existent. This is the origin of the of the Sept., Theodoret, and Hesychius, and of the Arabic alkafi of Saadias which has the same meaning. Gesenius (Gram. 86, and Jesaia 13:6) regards , shaddai, as the plural of majesty, from a singular noun, , shad, root , shadad, of which the primary notion seems to be to be strong (Furst, Handwb.). It is evident that this derivation was present to the mind of the prophet from the play of words in Isa 13:6. Ewald (Lehrb. 155 c, 5th ed.) takes it from a root =, and compares it with , davvai, from , davah, the older termination being retained. He also refers to the proper names , Yishai (Jesse), and , Bavvai (Neh 3:18). Rodiger (Gesen. Thesaur. s.v.) disputes Ewald’s explanation, and proposes, as one less open to objection, that Shaddai originally signified my powerful ones, and afterwards became the name of God Almighty, like the analogous form Adonai. In favor of this is the fact that it is never found with the definite article, but such would be equally the case if Shaddai were regarded as a proper name. On the whole there seems no reasonable objection to the view taken by Gesenius, which Lee also adopts (Gram. 139, 6).<\/p>\n
Shaddai is found as ant element in the proper names Ammishaddai, Zurishaddai, and possibly also in Shedeur there may be a trace of it.<\/p>\n
the Omnipotent, the name of God in frequent use in the Hebrew Scriptures, generally translated “the Almighty.”<\/p>\n
(“ALMIGHTY”.) (See GOD.) Gesenius derives from shad, shaadad, “to be strong.” Isa 13:6 plays on similar sounds, “destruction from the Almighty,” shod (“devastating tempest”) from Shadday. Rashi and the Talmud (Chagiga, 12, section 1) from sh “He who is,” and day “allsufficient.”<\/p>\n
SHADDAI.See art. God, 2 (c).<\/p>\n
shada-, shad. See GOD, NAMES OF, II., 8.<\/p>\n
Shaddai, an epithet or name applied to Jehovah. In Gen 17:1 it is given as El-Shaddai in the Authorized Version; but is everywhere else rendered by ‘Almighty,’ which is its true signification.<\/p>\n
See GOD.<\/p>\n
Shad’da-i. (the Mighty). An ancient name of God, rendered “Almighty”, everywhere in the Authorized Version, is found in connection with el, “God”, El Shaddai, being then rendered, “God Almighty”. By the name, or in the character of El-Shaddai, God was known to the patriarchs, Gen 17:1; Gen 28:3; Gen 43:14; Gen 48:3; Gen 40:25, before the name Jehovah, in its full significance, was revealed. Exo 6:3. See God.<\/p>\n
Shaddai (Heb. Shadday’, , in pause ), an ancient name of God, rendered Almighty everywhere in the A.V. In all passages of Genesis except one (Gen 49:25), in Exo 6:3, and in Eze 10:5, it is found in connection with , el, God, El Shaddai being there rendered God Almighty, or the Almighty God. It … Continue reading “Shaddai”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}