El-Elohe-Israel

VIEW:51 DATA:01-04-2020
God, the God of Israel
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


EL-ELOHE-ISRAEL.—Upon the ‘parcel of ground’ which he had bought at Shechem, Jacob built an altar and called it El-elohe-Israel, ‘El, the god of Israel,’ Gen_33:20 (E [Note: Elohist.] ). This appears a strange name for an altar, and it is just possible that we should emend the text, so as to read with the LXX [Note: Septuagint.] , ‘he called upon the God of Israel.’
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


"The mighty God of Israel," who had just shown His infinite might in saving Jacob (whose name was by God changed to Israel, because by prayer he had might with this mighty God and had prevailed) from Esau his deadly foe. Jacob so called the altar he built on the spot before Shechem, already consecrated by Abram (Gen_12:7; Gen_33:19-20). By it he implied that Jehovah, who was Abram's God, is also his God, as He had shown by bringing him safe back to Canaan as his inheritance.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


el-ē̇-lō?hē̇-iz?rā̇-el, el-el?ō̇-he-iz?rā̇-el (אל אלהי ישׂראל, 'ēl 'ĕlōhē yı̄srā'ēl, translated ?God, the God of Israel? in the American Revised Version, margin and the King James Version margin): Found only in Gen_33:20 as the name given to the altar erected at Shechem by Jacob, henceforth, known as Israel, on the parcel of ground purchased by him from the inhabitants of Shechem, his first encampment of length and importance since the return to Palestine from Paddan-aram and the eventful night at Peniel (Gen_32:30). This unusual combination of names has given occasion for much speculation and for various text emendations. Already the Septuagint sought to meet the difficulty by reading wa-yı̄ḳrā' 'el 'ĕlōhē yisrā'ēl, ?and he called upon the God of Israel,? instead of the wa-yiḳrā' lō'ēl of Massoretic Text, ?and he called it El? etc. Wellhausen, followed by Dillmann, Driver and others, changes ?altar? to ?pillar,? because the Hebrew verb, hiccı̄bh, is used with maccēbhāh, ?pillar,? in Gen_35:14, Gen_35:20, so making this religious act a parallel to that at Bethel. But Delitzsch, New Commentary on Genesis, properly rejects this purely fanciful change, and understands the compound name as the altar's inscription. Dillmann well suggests that ?altar? (or ?pillar?) be supplied, reading Thus: ?called it the altar of El, the God of Israel.? The peculiar phrase is best and most readily understood in its close connection with the struggle at Peniel, recorded in Gen 32. Being victorious in that struggle, Jacob received the new name ?Israel?; and to his first altar in Palestine he gave that name of God which appeared in his own new name, further explaining it by the appositive phrase ?Elohe-Israel.? Thus, his altar was called, or dedicated to, ?El, the God of Israel.?

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


El-elohe-Israel
(Hebrew El Elohey' Yisral', אֵל אלֵהֵי יַשְׂרָאֵל Mighty One, God of Israel; Sept. ὁ θεὸς Ισραήλ; Vulg. Fortissimus Deus Israel), the name bestowed by Jacob on the altar which he erected facing the city of Shechem, in the piece of cultivated land upon which he had pitched his tent, and which he afterwards purchased from the Bene-Hamor (Gen_33:20). This compound term designates God as the being who can do whatever seems good to him, and who, in the recent experience of Jacob, had peculiarly manifested his power in overcoming the deep-rooted enmity of Esau, and thereby averting the most alarming evil which Jacob had ever been called to encounter. SEE JACOB.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





Norway

FACEBOOK

Participe de nossa rede facebook.com/osreformadoresdasaude

Novidades, e respostas das perguntas de nossos colaboradores

Comments   2

BUSCADAVERDADE

Visite o nosso canal youtube.com/buscadaverdade e se INSCREVA agora mesmo! Lá temos uma diversidade de temas interessantes sobre: Saúde, Receitas Saudáveis, Benefícios dos Alimentos, Benefícios das Vitaminas e Sais Minerais... Dê uma olhadinha, você vai gostar! E não se esqueça, dê o seu like e se INSCREVA! Clique abaixo e vá direto ao canal!


Saiba Mais

  • Image Nutrição
    Vegetarianismo e a Vitamina B12
  • Image Receita
    Como preparar a Proteína Vegetal Texturizada
  • Image Arqueologia
    Livro de Enoque é um livro profético?
  • Image Profecia
    O que ocorrerá no Armagedom?

Tags