Shaddai meaning fertility ------------------------- Harriet Lutzky, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at John Jay College, City University of New York, has presented evidence that Shaddai was an attribute of a Semitic goddess, linking the epithet Shaddai with the Hebrew šad meaning "breast", giving the meaning "the one of the Breast", as Asherah at Ugarit is "the one of the Womb". A similar theory proposed by Albright is that the name Shaddai is connected to shadayim, the Hebrew word for "breasts". It may thus be connected to the notion of God's gifts of fertility to the human race. In several instances in the Torah the name is connected with fruitfulness: "May God Almighty [El Shaddai] bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers…" (Gen. 28:3). "I am God Almighty [El Shaddai]: be fruitful and increase in number" (Gen. 35:11). "By the Almighty [El Shaddai] who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts [shadayim] and of the womb [racham]" (Gen. 49:25).
Shaddai meaning sustainer and destroyer --------------------------------------- As mentioned above there are two words in Hebrew that could be the origin of Shaddai: "shada" and "shadad" meaning to nurture and destroy respectively. They are derived from two Semetic root words, one meaning breast or fertility and the other meaning to lay waste, desolate, or bring to ruin. Shaddai can mean either "my sustainers" or "my destroyers" (possessive plural) in Hebrew when referring to humans and could mean both "my ultimate sustainer and my ultimate destroyer" in the majestic plural when referring to the God of Israel.
In Hebrew a verb can be made into a singular possessive pronoun with the addition of the suffix "i" and it can be made into a plural possessive pronoun with the addition of the suffix "ai". However the plural possessive suffix "ai" and the plural masculine suffix "iym" can be used as a majestic plural when referring to the Abrahamic God or a suzerain, similar to the royal we in English. For example the Hebrew word for "owner" is "adon". A slave's owner is referred to as his "adon" (singular) however an animal's owner is referred to as its "adoniym" meaning "their owners" (plural) even if the owner is a single person. Similarly a slave would refer to his master as adoni (my owner) but to multiple masters as adonai (my owners). However when referring to the God of Israel humans use the majestic possessive plural pronoun "Adonai" instead of the singular possessive pronoun "adoni", although the God of Israel is absolutely singular (see Deut. 6:4).
Translation is tricky work sometimes, and while that is one translation of the Hebrew words "El-Shaddai", there are others. So you have the full picture, I'll cut and paste some Wikipedia for you.
Enjoy! - Chris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Shaddai
El Shaddai (Hebrew: אל שדי, IPA: [el ʃadːaj]) is one of the Judaic names of God, with its etymology coming from the influence of the Ugaritic religion upon modern Judaism. Shaddai was one of the many Gods in Canaanite religion. El Shaddai is conventionally translated as God Almighty. While the translation of El as "god" in Ugarit/Canaanite language is straightforward, the literal meaning of Shaddai is the subject of debate.
Shaddai as a theonym -------------------- According to Exodus 6:2, 3, Shaddai (שַׁדַּי) is the name by which God was known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The name Shaddai is again used as a name of God later in the Book of Job.
Shaddai meaning destroyer ------------------------- The root word "shadad" (שדד) means "to overpower" or "to destroy". This would give Shaddai the meaning of "destroyer", representing one of the aspects of God, and in this context it is essentially an epithet. The meaning of Shaddai may go back to the original sense of "shadad" which was "to be strong" akin to Arabic "shadiid" (شديد) "strong". The termination "ai", typically signifying the first person possessive plural, functions as a pluralis excellentiae like other theonyms of the Hebrew God Elohim and Adonai. The possessive quality of the termination had lost its sense and become the lexical form of both Shaddai and Adonai, similar to how the French word Monsieur changed from meaning "my lord" to being an honorific title.
Another theory is that Shaddai is a derivation of a Semitic stem that appears in the Akkadian shadû ("mountain") and shaddā`û or shaddû`a ("mountain-dweller"), one of the names of Amurru. This theory was popularized by W. F. Albright [citation needed] but was somewhat weakened when it was noticed [by whom?] that the doubling of the medial d is first documented only in the Neo-Assyrian period. However, the doubling in Hebrew might possibly be secondary. According to this theory, God is seen as inhabiting a mythical holy mountain, a concept not unknown in ancient West Asian mythology (see El), and also evident in the Syriac Christian writings of Ephrem the Syrian, who places Eden on an inaccessible mountaintop.
Marie, you are gifted in your art AND with your words! I love the title of this piece - "Rebuilding the Past, Unzipping the Future". Those are words for ALL of us to ponder as we look to a future with so many possibilities. Thank you for sharing your gifts!
Thanks for writing! I finished the transcription for your post. I thought this was a wonderful poem and I know you've put a lot of feeling and emotion into this poem. I wish you well!
Yes, yoga is great!! I do it for so very long! I had the most differnet teachers really. This morning again I was on my mat doing it. I add other gym exercices as well. As long as they benefit my legs and sometimes I do arm exercices with light weights.
George trains people, but stresses the food you eat as well. Once we're together, he will be my personal trainer, he tells me! Haha.
Well, Kelly, you are right, one feels fit and relaxed after a yoga session! Also the mind benefits from it at the same time. Yoga means to be in balance with the body and the mind.
I have great books from it! Ever got one from my children. As to the reading of books; Allende I know, not the others. I am sure you would love this writer: Haruki Murakami, he's good! it's a Japanese writer. His books are translated in various languages.
Kelly, can you tell me if you got this mail on the 18th of November???!!! As they mention this here above. I wonder?
If you read marvelous books, tell me about and write their titels, ok?
Aren't there at your place kind persons such as you, Kelly? There are so many!How come we found you!??? ;-)
All the best and do have joy in your life... as much as possibly can!
i wondered if you had brothers or sisters? The friends who were friends before you got in prison, do they keep in touch.. or just lost touch? To me then they never were true friends in the first place, isn't it? Friendship tracends all borders to me. A true friend always stays a friend. I've pretty many, so to say. My oldest is Lily, she was my best friend in a youthgroup, like the Scouts.(?)We were 1O (she)and 11(me) yrs young! Now she lives a few kilomters away! One day (I hadn't seen her for 33yers!...), a friend who commited suicide, brought us togheter.
We would have recognized ourselves immediatly! then Greet (Greta), I knew from boarding school at 16! We were the best friends!!She also lives in Antwerpen, not too far from me.
She had so very much bad luck regarding her health!How much more can a person bear..... :-( Tomorrow exactly she travels for the very last time to see her brother and her sister in South Africa. I hope all goes well! They will take so very well care of her in the plane, i guess?
She still is married, and has three children. And 2 grandchildren in Germany. There was a day she just would like to die... Well, that is a long story.
And then there are good friends here and there, also in Argentina.
How about your friends, Kelly? Did you have a companion in the outer world? Maybe it's something private and you'd rather not like to talk about it, or only in a letter?
So,from the 21 of December, I'll be in America in my hotel. It would be nice a letter of yours would await me there! ;-) It is cheaper to send it too!
This is my address: Country Inn & Suites, 2284 Promenade Ct. Galesburg , IL 61401 George will write me there as well!
I will stay there till the 29th of that month. Later at the B&B I will write you on the computer most of all.
So, don't send me a letter now, as I will be gone probably!
I am preparing myself little by little, and I have to carry the chocolats and a special toy for them and the kids, for their feast of Saint Nicolas! :-) It is similar as your feast of Santa Claus. Only that that person ever existed. He was a bisshop. He and his black helper, throw toys through the chimneys for the kids!!! ;-)))
Well, have a great day, Kelly and lift your spirit with good literature! That is a very goooooodddddddddddd idea!! :-)
Wow! I would love to help! I don't know much about setting up websites, nor do I have any money to give for domain names (I'm only a student), but I can look into the matter and learn how to set up a website from friends. Is this the help you're looking for? Best, Calhoun25
Today I was in Bruges, where i am born, to visit my uncle. Other members of the family where also on a visit at his.It was a nice get together! Thank you for the condoleances, Little Pilgrim! :-)
Here at least is my email,(ridebema@gmail.com) and in there I will give my phone number, so we could call prior to meet each other in 2014. Yes, I'm rather busy preparing for summer and winter time!! I will stay about 42 days in the States! As I already said, I lived three years in Utah and 4 in Ohio. It feels somewhat as my second home.;-))
Kelly, all the best in whatever you undertake, eh!
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Shaddai meaning fertility
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Harriet Lutzky, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at John Jay College, City University of New York, has presented evidence that Shaddai was an attribute of a Semitic goddess, linking the epithet Shaddai with the Hebrew šad meaning "breast", giving the meaning "the one of the Breast", as Asherah at Ugarit is "the one of the Womb". A similar theory proposed by Albright is that the name Shaddai is connected to shadayim, the Hebrew word for "breasts". It may thus be connected to the notion of God's gifts of fertility to the human race. In several instances in the Torah the name is connected with fruitfulness: "May God Almighty [El Shaddai] bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers…" (Gen. 28:3). "I am God Almighty [El Shaddai]: be fruitful and increase in number" (Gen. 35:11). "By the Almighty [El Shaddai] who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts [shadayim] and of the womb [racham]" (Gen. 49:25).
Shaddai meaning sustainer and destroyer
---------------------------------------
As mentioned above there are two words in Hebrew that could be the origin of Shaddai: "shada" and "shadad" meaning to nurture and destroy respectively. They are derived from two Semetic root words, one meaning breast or fertility and the other meaning to lay waste, desolate, or bring to ruin. Shaddai can mean either "my sustainers" or "my destroyers" (possessive plural) in Hebrew when referring to humans and could mean both "my ultimate sustainer and my ultimate destroyer" in the majestic plural when referring to the God of Israel.
In Hebrew a verb can be made into a singular possessive pronoun with the addition of the suffix "i" and it can be made into a plural possessive pronoun with the addition of the suffix "ai". However the plural possessive suffix "ai" and the plural masculine suffix "iym" can be used as a majestic plural when referring to the Abrahamic God or a suzerain, similar to the royal we in English. For example the Hebrew word for "owner" is "adon". A slave's owner is referred to as his "adon" (singular) however an animal's owner is referred to as its "adoniym" meaning "their owners" (plural) even if the owner is a single person. Similarly a slave would refer to his master as adoni (my owner) but to multiple masters as adonai (my owners). However when referring to the God of Israel humans use the majestic possessive plural pronoun "Adonai" instead of the singular possessive pronoun "adoni", although the God of Israel is absolutely singular (see Deut. 6:4).
Enjoy!
- Chris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Shaddai
El Shaddai (Hebrew: אל שדי, IPA: [el ʃadːaj]) is one of the Judaic names of God, with its etymology coming from the influence of the Ugaritic religion upon modern Judaism. Shaddai was one of the many Gods in Canaanite religion. El Shaddai is conventionally translated as God Almighty. While the translation of El as "god" in Ugarit/Canaanite language is straightforward, the literal meaning of Shaddai is the subject of debate.
Shaddai as a theonym
--------------------
According to Exodus 6:2, 3, Shaddai (שַׁדַּי) is the name by which God was known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The name Shaddai is again used as a name of God later in the Book of Job.
Shaddai meaning destroyer
-------------------------
The root word "shadad" (שדד) means "to overpower" or "to destroy". This would give Shaddai the meaning of "destroyer", representing one of the aspects of God, and in this context it is essentially an epithet. The meaning of Shaddai may go back to the original sense of "shadad" which was "to be strong" akin to Arabic "shadiid" (شديد) "strong". The termination "ai", typically signifying the first person possessive plural, functions as a pluralis excellentiae like other theonyms of the Hebrew God Elohim and Adonai. The possessive quality of the termination had lost its sense and become the lexical form of both Shaddai and Adonai, similar to how the French word Monsieur changed from meaning "my lord" to being an honorific title.
Another theory is that Shaddai is a derivation of a Semitic stem that appears in the Akkadian shadû ("mountain") and shaddā`û or shaddû`a ("mountain-dweller"), one of the names of Amurru. This theory was popularized by W. F. Albright [citation needed] but was somewhat weakened when it was noticed [by whom?] that the doubling of the medial d is first documented only in the Neo-Assyrian period. However, the doubling in Hebrew might possibly be secondary. According to this theory, God is seen as inhabiting a mythical holy mountain, a concept not unknown in ancient West Asian mythology (see El), and also evident in the Syriac Christian writings of Ephrem the Syrian, who places Eden on an inaccessible mountaintop.
Yes, yoga is great!! I do it for so very long! I had the most differnet teachers really.
This morning again I was on my mat doing it. I add other gym exercices as well. As long as they benefit my legs and sometimes I do arm exercices with light weights.
George trains people, but stresses the food you eat as well. Once we're together, he will be my personal trainer, he tells me! Haha.
Well, Kelly, you are right, one feels fit and relaxed after a yoga session! Also the mind benefits from it at the same time. Yoga means to be in balance with the body and the mind.
I have great books from it! Ever got one from my children.
As to the reading of books; Allende I know, not the others. I am sure you would love this writer: Haruki Murakami, he's good! it's a Japanese writer.
His books are translated in various languages.
Kelly, can you tell me if you got this mail on the 18th of November???!!! As they mention this here above. I wonder?
If you read marvelous books, tell me about and write their titels, ok?
Aren't there at your place kind persons such as you, Kelly?
There are so many!How come we found you!??? ;-)
All the best and do have joy in your life... as much as possibly can!
hugs from Rita!
i wondered if you had brothers or sisters? The friends who were friends before you got in prison, do they keep in touch.. or just lost touch?
To me then they never were true friends in the first place, isn't it?
Friendship tracends all borders to me. A true friend always stays a friend. I've pretty many, so to say.
My oldest is Lily, she was my best friend in a youthgroup, like the Scouts.(?)We were 1O (she)and 11(me) yrs young! Now she lives a few kilomters away! One day (I hadn't seen her for 33yers!...), a friend who commited suicide, brought us togheter.
We would have recognized ourselves immediatly!
then Greet (Greta), I knew from boarding school at 16!
We were the best friends!!She also lives in Antwerpen, not too far from me.
She had so very much bad luck regarding her health!How much more can a person bear..... :-(
Tomorrow exactly she travels for the very last time to see her brother and her sister in South Africa.
I hope all goes well! They will take so very well care of her in the plane, i guess?
She still is married, and has three children. And 2 grandchildren in Germany.
There was a day she just would like to die...
Well, that is a long story.
And then there are good friends here and there, also in Argentina.
How about your friends, Kelly? Did you have a companion in the outer world?
Maybe it's something private and you'd rather not like to talk about it, or only in a
letter?
So,from the 21 of December, I'll be in America in my hotel. It would be nice a letter of yours would await me there! ;-)
It is cheaper to send it too!
This is my address: Country Inn & Suites, 2284 Promenade Ct. Galesburg , IL 61401
George will write me there as well!
I will stay there till the 29th of that month.
Later at the B&B I will write you on the computer most of all.
So, don't send me a letter now, as I will be gone probably!
I am preparing myself little by little, and I have to carry the chocolats and a special toy for them and the kids, for their feast of Saint Nicolas! :-)
It is similar as your feast of Santa Claus. Only that that person ever existed. He was a bisshop.
He and his black helper, throw toys through the chimneys for the kids!!! ;-)))
Well, have a great day, Kelly and lift your spirit with good literature! That is a very goooooodddddddddddd idea!! :-)
hugs and be blessed, friend
Best,
Calhoun25
Thank you for the condoleances, Little Pilgrim! :-)
Here at least is my email,(ridebema@gmail.com) and in there I will give my phone number, so we could call prior to meet each other in 2014.
Yes, I'm rather busy preparing for summer and winter time!!
I will stay about 42 days in the States! As I already said, I lived three years in Utah and 4 in Ohio. It feels somewhat as my second home.;-))
Kelly, all the best in whatever you undertake, eh!
hugs to the 2 of you!
Rita