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NASB | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3] |
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Bible Note: Question: Do you think that God's name is Jealous? Or do you think that this word should be lower case as in "My name is holy". Reply: Exodus 34:14 NAS. --for you shall not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God -- Amplified. For you shall worship no other god; for the Lord, Whose name is Jealous, is a jealous (impassioned) God, New English Translation. "For you must not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name[8] is Jealous, is a jealous God. "[8]Here, too, the emphasis on God's being a jealous God is repeated (see Exod 20:5). The use of 'name' here is to stress that this is his nature, his character." The Hebrew word "Shem" (Strong's #08034) here translated "name" has more than one meaning. It can be translated "name; reputation; memory; renown" (Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1984). Actually, God's name is not God. It is Yahweh, which appears nearly 7,000 times in the Hebrew text of the OT. "Yahweh/Yah (or Jehovah). yhwh (or JHVH), the tetragrammaton because of its four letters, is, strictly speaking, the only proper name for God. It is also the most frequent name, occurring in the Old Testament 6,828 times (almost 700 times in the Psalms alone). Yah is a shortened form that appears fifty times in the Old Testament, including forty-three occurrences in the Psalms, often in the admonition "hallelu-jah" (lit. praise Jah). English Bibles represent the name yhwh by the title "LORD" (written in capitals to distinguish it from "lord" [adonai]. The Septuagint rendered yhwh as kyrios (Lord). The line from yhwh to adonai to kyrios is significant for the Pauline statement: "And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord" (Php 2:11)" (Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, (http://bible.crosswalk.com/Dictionaries/BakersEvangelicalDictionary/bed.cgi) |