What does El Elyon mean?

El 'Elyon, the Lord of Heaven and Earth, corresponds to no actual deity in the Canaanite pantheon. He has been artificially set up through the combination of El the Lord of Earth with 'Elyon the Lord of Heaven. In other words, he is the result of theological speculation.
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What does El Elyon mean in English?

Elyon (Biblical Hebrew עליון; Masoretic ʿElyōn) is an epithet of the God of the Israelites in the Hebrew Bible. ʾĒl ʿElyōn is usually rendered in English as "God Most High", and similarly in the Septuagint as ο θεος ο ύψιστος ("God the highest").
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What does the Bible say about El Elyon?

Hebrew Bible

The compound name ʼĒl ʻElyōn 'God Most High' occurs in Genesis 14:18–20 as the God whose priest was Melchizedek, king of Salem. The form appears again almost immediately in verse 22, used by Abraham in an oath to the king of Sodom.
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Is El Elyon the same as Yahweh?

Also, “El” and “Elyon” are the same god, “El Elyon” actually, and El Elyon is a different god than Elohim (Yahweh).
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What does El mean in Hebrew?

Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew form (אל) appears in Latin letters in Standard Hebrew transcription as El and in Tiberian Hebrew transcription as ʾĒl. ʼĒl is a generic word for god that could be used for any god, including Hadad, Moloch, or Yahweh.
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What does El mean in Elohim?

The word el (singular) is a standard term for "god" in Aramaic, paleo-Hebrew, and other related Semitic languages including Ugaritic. The Canaanite pantheon of gods was known as 'ilhm, the Ugaritic equivalent to elohim.
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What kind of God is El?

El, the general term for “deity” in Semitic languages as well as the name of the chief deity of the West Semites. In the ancient texts from Ras Shamra (ancient Ugarit) in Syria, El was described as the titular head of the pantheon, husband of Asherah, and father of all the other gods (except for Baal).
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What is the highest name of God?

Yahweh is the principal name in the Old Testament by which God reveals himself and is the most sacred, distinctive and incommunicable name of God.
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What's the meaning of most high God?

Definition of Most High

: god —usually used with the the Most High rules the kingdom of men — Daniel 4:17 (Revised Standard Version)
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Who is the prophet of the Most High?

and you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare the way, by the forgiveness of their sins.
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Is Elyon a male name?

Name Elyon is of Hebrew origin and is a Girl name.
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What does Erkamka mean?

This "erkamka" is a butchery of Hebrew × ×¨×—×ž×š [er'Hham'kha] meaning 'i will love you'. This occurs in Ps 18:2. The root is resh. Hhet. mem and relates to compassion, softness, and relates to the word for womb.
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What is the meaning of Rapha?

The name Rapha is primarily a male name of Hebrew origin that means Comfort, Healing. In the Bible, Rapha was the fifth son of Benjamin.
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What is the forbidden name of God?

All modern denominations of Judaism teach that the four letter name of God, YHWH, is forbidden to be uttered except by the High Priest, in the Temple.
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What are the 7 names of God?

Seven names of God
  • YHWH.
  • Adonai.
  • El.
  • Elohim.
  • Shaddai.
  • Tzevaot.
  • Ehyeh.
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What is Jesus real name?

Jesus' name in Hebrew was “Yeshua” which translates to English as Joshua.
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Are Baal and El the same?

This study finds that the words El and Baal were initially used both as appellatives and as personal names. However, both words later evolved in opposite ways – the sense of El became more generic, whereas, the name Baal developed to be more associated with the storm deity in the Ugaritic religion.
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Is El an Egyptian God?

“El, the sun-god of the Syrians, the Egyptians, and the Semites, is declared by Pleyte to be no other than Set or Seth, and El is the primeval Saturn—Israel. Siva is an AEthiopian god, the same as the Chaldean Baal–Bel; thus he is also Saturn.
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What does Yod Hey Vav mean?

I tend to use Yeshua or Y'shua, although I like the Yahvashua, as it covers much of the name of God (yod hey vav hey) often transliterated as Yahweh, and incorrectly translated to Jehovah. I tend to use YHVH or Yahweh to refer to the true name of “God”.
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Are Elohim and Yahweh the same?

There is much more than meets the eye with the terms El, translated into English as God, Yahweh, translated as the Lord, and Elohim, also translated as God. These terms are all essentially equated today.
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Who is Elohim?

Elohim, singular Eloah, (Hebrew: God), the God of Israel in the Old Testament.
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What does Yahweh mean in the Bible?

Yahweh is the name of the state god of the ancient Kingdom of Israel and, later, the Kingdom of Judah. His name is composed of four Hebrew consonants (YHWH, known as the Tetragrammaton) which the prophet Moses is said to have revealed to his people.
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