El Shaddai

We Christians often use YHWH El Shaddai when we Praise the LORD and give our thanks.

Do we know the meaning of El Shaddai? Do we know that the meaning is debatable and there are atleast 3 meanings for the word Shaddai?

I give below the different meanings

God of Wilderness

God of Mountains

God who Nourishes

There are even debates that there was a bronze age city by name shaddai and hence God of Shaddai is a possibility. There are also equivalent pagan gods that even Baalam while summoned to tell an Oracle against Israel  uses Shaddai and hence considered to be a deity of the kingdom.

Let us worship the LORD in our own language, rather than unknown Hebrew as we don't know the meaning, unless we get the worship while we speak in tongues.

HalleluYah.

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