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NAMES OF GOD IN THE BIBLE: A DISPENSATIONAL APPROACH : PROF. M. M. NINAN Other references are found in vEx. 4:10; Judges 6:15; 2 Sam. 7:18-20; Ps. 8, 114:7, 135:5, 141:8, 109:21-28. Isaiah (Adonai Jehovah) uses the word heavily and Ezekiel uses it over 200 times and Daniel uses it 10 times. YHWH is repeatedly referred to as Adonai (Lord) some 439 times throughout the Tanach. This epithet literally means "my lords" in plural. Again it could be interpreted as Royal Plural statement or as a oneness within plurality. In Ps. 110:1 the word is pointing in the singular sense, as it usually is when it applies to humans. Yet Jesus used this verse to argue for his deity. The pointing is Massoretic, and no distinction would be made in the consonantal texts. Since the word denotes a superior, the word must refer to one who is superior to David and who bears the messianic roles of king and priest (vs. 4). In the Tanakh, the word Adon can refer to men and angels as well as to the LORD God of Israel (e.g., Exodus 34:23). God is called the “Lord of lords”(Deuteronomy 10:17) and Psalm 8:1 mentions God as “YHVH our Lord.” The plural form Adonai, like the plural form Elohim, is regularly used with singular verbs and modifiers, so it is best to construe the Name as an “emphatic plural” or “plural of majesty.” When the plural is formed using a singular possessive ending (“my Lords”), it always refers to God, and occurs over 300 times in the Tanakh in this form. Owing to the expansion of chumra (the idea of "building a fence around the Torah"), Adonai itself has come to be too holy to say for Orthodox Jews, leading to its replacement by HaShem ("The Name"). The singular forms adon and adoni ("my lord") are used in scripture as royal titles, as in the First Book of Samuel,(1 Sam. 29:8) and for distinguished persons. The Phoenicians used it as a title of Tammuz, the origin of the Greek Adonis, and is also used in scripture to refer to God (e.g. Ps 114:7.)[38] Deuteronomy 10:17 has the proper name Yahweh alongside the superlative constructions "god[s] of כִּי יְהוָה אvֱ‎‏ֽהֵיכֶם הוּא אvֱ‎הֵי הָֽאvֱ‎הִים וַאֲדֹנֵי ( ha-adōnîm gods" elōhê ha-elōhîm and "lord of lords" adōnê lords"). ; KJV gives it as "For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of הָאֲדֹנִים Adoshem Up until the mid-twentieth century, the use of the word Adoshem, combining the first two syllables of "Adonai" with the last syllable of "Hashem"', was quite common. This was discouraged by Rabbi David HaLevi Segal in his commentary to the Shulchan Aruch. His rationale was that it is disrespectful to combine a Name of God with another word. It took a few centuries for the word to fall into almost complete disuse. Despite being obsolete in most circles, it is used occasionally in conversation in place of Adonai by Jews who do not wish to say Adonai but need to specify the substitution of that particular word. It is also used when quoting from the liturgy in a non-liturgical context. For example, Shlomo Carlebach performed his prayer "Shema Yisrael" with the words Shema Yisrael Adoshem Elokeinu Adoshem Eḥad instead of Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Eḥad. Adonay HaAdonim - Lord Of The Lords: (Deuteronomy 10:17). Our Lord is the supreme Master, the ultimate Ruler, the Lord over all the powers and authorities that exist in the universe Ancient of Days: Attiq Yomin (Aramaic):(Dan. 7:9, 13, 22.) Palaios Hemeron (Greek Septuagint) ; Antiquus dierum (Vulgate). 36
NAMES OF GOD IN THE BIBLE: A DISPENSATIONAL APPROACH : PROF. M. M. NINAN The Ancient of Days I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. Daniel 7:9 Daniel 7:13-14 says, “I kept on beholding in the visions of the night, and, see there! with the clouds of the heavens someone like a son of man happened to be coming; and to the Ancient of Days he gained access, and they brought him up close even before that One. And to him there were given rulership and dignity and kingdom, that the peoples, national groups and languages should all serve 37
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