>>18622483[1]
http://dssenglishbible.com/scroll4Q37.htm[2] עֶלְיוֹן.
a.) The Most High.
b.) supreme, highest in rank.
c.) topmost, uppermost.
[3] אָדָם.
a.) humankind.
b.) the name of the first man.
[4] אֱלֹהִים (Elohim). Plural of אֱלוֹהַּ (Eloah—probably cognate with “Allah”).
a.) gods, deities, The Divine Council, The Assembly of God, or El’s pantheon.
Introduced in Genesis 1:1.
Although a plural noun, “Elohim” often takes a singular verb, so it is likely to represent a unified collective. (e.g. “The team wins many games.” vs. “They win many games.” Genesis 1:26—“Then Elohim said, ‘Let US make mankind in OUR image[…]’ ”.)
El had a chief consort, Asherah/Aithirat, and 70 sons, which probably explains why the collective “Elohim” is frequently chosen over the simpler “El”.
[5] The Masoretic Text reads “יִשְׂרָאֵל” (Israel).
[6] Thought by some to have originally read “שֹׁראֵל” (ShorEl, Bull-El, or Bull God)—a one letter difference from Israel. The symbol of El was a bull.
“שראל“ -> ”ישראל”
https://ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com/ancient_hebrew_poetry/2008/04/elyon-bull-el-a.htmlhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/20504281https://sci-hub.ru/10.2307/20504281[7] יהוה. Yahweh.
[8] Jacob was renamed Israel in Genesis 35:10.
