Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel: Godsnaam

Godsnaam

θεός ^G2316 "God, Godheid, Heilige Geest, goden, godin, goddelijk, magistraat,", κύριος ^G2962 "God, eigenaar, meester, bezitter", אֲדֹנָי ^H136 "Heere, Heer, heer", אֵל ^H410 "God, god", אֱלָהּ ^H426 "god(en), god(en), God", אֱלֹהִים ^H430 "Elohim, Godsnaam, goden, engelen", אֱלוֹהַּ ^H433 "god(en), god, goden, God", יְהֹוָה ^H3068 "JHWH, HEERE, God, Godsnaam", צָבָא ^H6635 "leger, krijgsdienst", רָאָה ^H7200 "zien, verschijnen",

Zie ook: Beeldbank, God, Godheid,

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Namen en titels van God

Naam

JHWH יְהוָה

Titels Oude Testament

Aveer אֲבִיר
Adonai אֲדֹנָי ^H136
El אֵל
Elah אֱלָהּ
Eloah אלוה
Elohim
Kyrios κυριος
Shaddai שַׁדַּי
Tzoor צור
Oude van dagen

Overige aanduidingen

HEERE God is Waarheid

יהוה אלהים אמת JHWH ’ĕlōhîm ’ĕmeṯ "HEERE God is Waarheid" (Jer. 10:10)

Hebreeuws vs. andere talen

Hebreeuws	Grieks	Aramees	Latijn	Nederlands
יְהוָה	κυριος	יְהוָה	Deus	HEERE
אֲדֹנָי	θεός	אֲדֹנָי	Dominus	Heere
אֱלֹהִים	θεός	אֱלֹהִים	Deus	God
אֵל	θεός	אֵל	Dei	God

Betekenis van God

O.E. god "supreme being, deity; the Christian God; image of a god; godlike person," from P.Gmc. *guthan (cf. O.S., O.Fris., Du. god, O.H.G. got, Ger. Gott, O.N. guð, Goth. guþ), from PIE *ghut- "that which is invoked" (cf. O.C.S. zovo "to call," Skt. huta- "invoked," an epithet of Indra), from root *gheu(e)- "to call, invoke." But some trace it to PIE *ghu-to- "poured," from root *gheu- "to pour, pour a libation" (source of Gk. khein "to pour," also in the phrase khute gaia "poured earth," referring to a burial mound; see found (v.2)). "Given the Greek facts, the Germanic form may have referred in the first instance to the spirit immanent in a burial mound" [Watkins]. Cf. also Zeus. (www.etymonline.com)
Not related to good. Originally a neuter noun in Germanic, the gender shifted to masculine after the coming of Christianity. Old English god probably was closer in sense to L. numen. A better word to translate deus might have been P.Gmc. *ansuz, but this was used only of the highest deities in the Germanic religion, and not of foreign gods, and it was never used of the Christian God. It survives in English mainly in the personal names beginning in Os-.
GOD - The English word God is identical with the Anglo-Saxon word for “good,” and therefore it is believed that the name God refers to the divine goodness. (See Oehler's Theol. of Old Test.; Strong's and Young's concordances.) (From New Unger's Bible Dictionary) (Originally published by Moody Press of Chicago, Illinois. Copyright (C) 1988.)
Word origin: God - Our word god goes back via Germanic to Indo-European, in which a corresponding ancestor form meant “invoked one.” The word’s only surviving non-Germanic relative is Sanskrit hu, invoke the gods, a form which appears in the Rig Veda, most ancient of Hindu scriptures: puru-hutas, “much invoked,” epithet of the rain-and-thunder god Indra. (From READER’S DIGEST, Family Word Finder, page 351) (Originally published by The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville New York, Montreal; Copyright (C) 1975)

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