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Encyclopedia > El Shaddai

El Shaddai (Hebrew: אל שדי) is one of the Judaic names of God. See El (god) and Names of God in Judaism#Shaddai. Hebrew (עִבְרִית or עברית, ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ... Ä’l (אל) is a northwest Semitic word and name translated into English as either god or God or left untranslated as El, depending on the context. ... At the bottom of the hands, the two letters on each hand combine to form יהוה (YHVH), the name of God. ...


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El Shaddai (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (250 words)
"El Shaddai" is a Contemporary Christian music song by Amy Grant from her 1982 album Age to Age.
"El Shaddai" won "Song of the Year" and Card won "Songwriter of the Year" at the 1983 Dove Awards.
El Shaddai, as previously mentioned, is most often translated as "God Almighty".
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This includes breast and nursing imagery, of which even the title of God used in Exodus 6:2-3, El Shaddai, traditionally interpreted as the Almighty, may be interpreted as the Breasted One from the Hebrew word shad, meaning breast, instead of using the Akkadian word shadu meaning mountain.
El Shaddai refers to Her oneness with Her Husband and Her position as co-head of the Family.
Shaddai caused Lucifer and Babylon to be kicked out and plunged to hell below, saying, "That bondwoman (Babylon) and her son (Lucifer) shall not be heirs with me and my children".
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