Lexical Definition

‎שַׁדַּי‎ Shadday (shad-dah'-ee) Almighty ^H:N-M
from ‎שָׁדַד‎

Almighty.

• the Almighty

1) almighty, most powerful
1a) Shaddai, the Almighty (of God)

See Greek: ἐπουράνιος · θεός · ἱκανός · κύριος · παντοκράτωρ · πᾶς

Extended Information

name of: יְהֹוָה

• Shaddai, the Almighty (God)
• Another name of ye.ho.vah (‎יהוה‎ "LORD" יְהֹוָה)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎שַׁדַּי‎₄₈ noun masculine, of deity (etymology dubious (I) Aq Symm Theod ἱκανός; Rabb ‎שֶֿׁ‎ + ‎דַּי‎ (self-) sufficient, no moderns. (2) = almighty, √ ‎שׁדד‎ + ‎י‎ = Thes De Di Sta, or √‎שׁדה‎ = ‎שׁדד‎, intensive noun Ew^{§ 155 c}, but ‎שׁדד‎ (q. v.) is deal violently not simply mightily; compare ᵐ5 παντοκράτωρ 14 (15) t. (but in Pentateuch ‎׳‎‎אלשׁ‎ is ό Θεόχ μου, σου, etc.), ᵑ9 mostly omnipotens. (3) < conjecture for original ‎שֵׁדַי‎ (see ‎שֵׁד‎) my sovereign lord, || ‎אֲדֹנָי‎, ‎בעלי‎ Nö^{SBA 1880, 775; ZMG xlii (1888), 481}; Hoffm^{Ph. Inscr. 53}; used of foreign deities (Deut 32:17), and so discredited (compare ‎בַּעַל‎). — > other conjectures, e.g. RS^{OTJC, 424} √‎שׁדה‎ pour forth (God as rain-giver); Dl^{Pr 96 followed by} Assyrian šadû, high, ilu šâdû a, Che^{Comm. Isa ii.148}, or šadû, mountain, also in proper name; see further Dr^{Gen 404 ff.}); —

1. ‎שַׁדַּי‎ Num 24:4; Num 24:16 (J E, poem), and so as archaism Ruth 1:20; Ruth 1:21; Ps 68:15*; Ps 91:1; Joel 1:15 = Isa 13:6; Ezek 1:24 (strike out Co); especially Job 5:17 + 30:t. Job (+ Job 19:29 Ew Di, reading ‎׳‎‎שׁ‎ for ‎שׁדין‎).

2. ‎אֵל שַׁדַּי‎ Gen 49:25 (poem; so read for ‎׳‎‎אֵת שׁ‎, see ⅏ ᵐ5 ᵑ6 Saad, Hebrew Manuscripts), and so, as archaism, divine name of patriarchs in P, Gen 17:1; Gen 28:3; Gen 35:11; Gen 48:3; Exod 6:3; Gen 43:14 (R^P); so Ezek 10:5 (strike out Co; but ᵐ5 Σαδδαι).

‎שַׁדּ֯יּן‎ Job 19:29 see ‎דין‎ above.

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