Exodus 6:3
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| Overview - Exodus 6 | |
| 1 | God renews his promise by his name JEHOVAH. |
| 9 | Moses vainly attempts to encourage the Israelites. |
| 10 | He and Aaron are again sent to Pharaoh. |
| 14 | The genealogy of Reuben, of Simeon, and of Levi, of whom came Moses and Aaron. |
| 26 | The history resumed. |
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Exodus 6:3 (King James Version)
And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
- God Almighty
- {El shadday,} God Almighty; for {shadday} is evidently of affinity with the Arabic {shadid,} strong, mighty, and {shiddat,} strength, might; so the LXX. in Job render it
- [panto krator,] Vulgate, in Pentateuch, {Omnipotens,} and
- Syriac, in Job, {chasino.} Genesis 17:1 ; 28:3 35:11 48:3
- but by my name
- If Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, did not know the name Jehovah, then Moses must have used it in Genesis by prolepsis, or anticipation
- Mr. Locke and others read it interrogatively, for the negative particle, {lo,} not, has frequently this power in Hebrew: "I appeared unto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, and by my name Jehovah was I not also made known unto them?"
- JEHOVAH
- 3:14 Genesis 12:7 Genesis 12:8 ; 13:18 22:14 Psalms 68:4
- JAH
- Psalms 83:18 ; Isaiah 42:8 ; 44:6 Isaiah 52:5 Isaiah 52:6 John 8:58 ; Revelation 1:4