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El Shaddai




EL SHADDAI, EL SHADDAY ĕl shăd’ ī (אֵ֣ל שַׁדַּ֔י, God of the mountain(s) or God Almighty). An epithet of God in the patriarchal narratives and as an archaism in many poetic passages of the OT.


See [[Names of God]].

Bibliography

W. F. Albright, From the Stone Age to Christianity, 2nd ed. (1957), 15, 243, 244n., 247, 271, 300.

See also

  • [[Names of God]]