According to the Book of Exodus, which is part of the Torah and the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, Moses was the first person to whom the God of Abraham revealed his name. In the original texts, this divine name was written YHWH.
Moses 1:1–11 God Revealed Himself to Moses.
The scrolls contained the true name of God as communicated to Moses in a censured part of Exodus 3:14.
Hagar's Encounter With God
In this encounter with God's messenger, Hagar realizes that she is actually speaking with God, and she gives God a name, El Roi, “The God who sees me.” Hagar is the only person in the Hebrew Bible who gives God a name (Gen 16:13).
God assures her that she, too, will be the mother of a great nation. In response, Hagar becomes the only character in the Bible to name God: El Roi, “the God who sees me” (Genesis 16:13).
“God” is not God's name—it's a title. In Hebrew, it's the word elohim, which is a category of being (deity, in this case), just like human is a category of being (but not a name).
The various names of God in the book of Genesis are connected to the ways Ancient Near Eastern people thought about the gods. As we will see, the names given to God are a response to the religious ideas held by the Canaanites (an ancient people group) and an effort to redirect their attention to the God of Israel.
God changed Abram's name to Abraham, Sarai's to Sarah, Jacob's to Israel and Simon's to Peter. Through those names God gave new beginnings, new hopes, new blessings.
The oldest recorded god in human history is the Sumerian deity Anu, dating back to around 4000 BCE. Other ancient gods considered to be among the oldest include the Egyptian god Ra, the Babylonian god Marduk, the Hindu god Brahma, and the Greek god Zeus.
Similarly, El Shaddai, derived from "shad" i.e. Lord, also points to the power 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.
Jehovah (/dʒɪˈhoʊvə/) is a Latinization of the Hebrew יְהֹוָה Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. The Tetragrammaton יהוה is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God's name in Christianity.
The first one occurs in 2 Enoch 22 which portrays Enoch's encounter with the Lord in the celestial realm. Enoch recounts: I saw the view of the face of the Lord, like iron made burning hot in a fire and brought out, and it emits sparks and is incandescent. Thus even I saw the face of the Lord.
The Hebrew Bible states that God revealed Himself to mankind. God speaks with Adam and Eve in Eden (Gen 3:9–19); with Cain (Gen 4:9–15); with Noah (Gen 6:13, Gen 7:1, Gen 8:15) and his sons (Gen 9:1–8); and with Abraham and his wife Sarah (Gen 18).
Moshe (Moses) asks God “Show me your glory.” God responds that He cannot be seen by any human being. But, God tells Moshe, “Stand in the cleft of the rock” and “you will see My back, but My face must not be seen.” (Exodus 33: 17-23) What does this mean?
According to Jewish tradition, the number of divine names that require the scribe's special care is seven: El, Elohim, Adonai, YHWH, Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh, Shaddai, and Tzevaot. However, Rabbi Jose considered Tzevaot a common name (Soferim 4:1; Yer. R. H.
The miracles that God performed for Sarah in Egypt have not taught him her importance. God informs him that, although Ishmael will have his own destiny, the promise—as formalized in God's covenant—will come through Sarah. God therefore renames her and blesses her when announcing the birth of Isaac (Gen 17:15–21).
Genesis 1 tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, with humankind as the last of his creatures: "Male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam ..." (Genesis 5:2).
Aramaic is best known as the language Jesus spoke. It is a Semitic language originating in the middle Euphrates. In 800-600 BC it spread from there to Syria and Mesopotamia. The oldest preserved inscriptions are from this period and written in Old Aramaic.
In Christianity, the title "Son of God" refers to the status of Jesus as the divine son of God the Father. It derives from several uses in the New Testament and early Christian theology. The term is used in all four gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and the Pauline and Johannine literature.
Mary, the Mother of God, was born as Miriam more than 2000 years ago. Is Mary the mother of God? According to the Bible, Mary did not give birth to God, but to the Son of God. Since the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD, however, Mary has been venerated in Christianity as the Mother of God.
Joseph – often overlooked – is honored by Father's Day in many Catholic nations. 'The Holy Family,' by the 17th-century Spanish painter Bartolome Esteban Murillo.