when" the Word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision" (Gen. xv.); and all the targums, paraphrases, and commentaries of the Jews, observing this, unanimously make Adonai the name of the Messiah, of which we could give multitudes of instances, had we space for it.

Adon is also used in the same sense as the preceding name, though less frequently: and this last is common to earthly rulers and lords, as well as to Christ; whereas Adonai is exclusively given to Him who is Jehovah as well as Lord-who is the Root and the Offspring of David, his Lord as well as his Son.

D' Adonim, in the plural, is ascribed to God Mal. i. 6: "If I be a Master" (lit. Masters).

Hu, "He," the personal pronoun, seems to be often used as a proper name for God: as Deut. xxxii. 39, "See now that I, even I, am He;" Ps. xliv. 4, "Thou art He, my King, O God;" Ps. cii. 27, "Thou art the same " (He); Isai. xli. 4, "I am He;" Isai. xliii. 10, "That ye may know, and believe, and understand, that I am He....I am the Lord."

i Tzor, "Rock," seems to denote generally the attribute of stability and unchangeableness; yet it has often the appearance of a proper name: as Deut. xxxii. 4, "He is the Rock, his work is perfect;" ver. 18, "Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee;" ver. 30, "Except their Rock had sold them;" Isai. xliv. 8, "Is there a God besides me? yea, there is no Rock, I know not any;" Isai. xxx. 29, "To come into the mountain of the Lord, to the Mighty One (Rock) of Israel;" Isai, xxvi. 4, "In Jah Jehovah is everlasting strength" (the Rock of ages).

Abir, "the Mighty One," is first used in the blessing of Jacob, Gen. xlix. 24, and to it reference is made wherever this name is afterwards used. The fulness of blessing pronounced by his dying father on the head of Joseph has never yet been accomplished. The "habitation for the Mighty One of Jacob" (Ps. cxxxii. 2, 5), was only discovered by David, and only occupied for a short season on Mount Zion, while the temple on mount Moriah was building; after which the ark was removed from David's tabernacle on Zion into the temple of Solomon therefore this Psalm has only been partially accomplished, and verse 13, to the end, remain yet to be fulfilled: "The Lord hath chosen Zion: he hath desired it for his habitation. This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell, for I have desired it." And Isai. lx. 16 is altogether and in every sense future: "Thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breasts of kings; and thou shalt know that I the Lord

am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.. ....the days of thy mourning shall be ended."

7 Adir, "the Glorious One," is much like the preceding; only that this refers to the glory resulting from the might of the former name. So in Ex. xv. 6, "Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious (77) in power;" and verse 11,"glorious in holiness.' And in Ps. viii. 1, 9, which we know from Heb. ii. to be still future: "O Jehovah our Adonai, how excellent (TN) is thy name in all the earth:" to be fulfilled when "the glorious Lord" (TTN) of Isai. xxxiii. 21 becomes our Judge, our Lawgiver, and our King.

These are the principal single names of God; but there are also many compound names of great importance. The earliest of these is by Helion, or "Most High," to whom Melchizedec was priest (Gen. xiv. 18), and needs no explanation.

, El Shaddai, "God Almighty," or "God Allsufficient," is the next (Gen. xvii. 1). This is sometimes derived from TT, to destroy, but we much prefer considering it as compounded of N, that which suffices, "The All-satisfying One." And so Abram is offered perfection if he will rely incessantly on "the All-sufficient God."

,El Olam ,אֵל עוֹלָם

"the Everlasting God," occurs Gen. xxi. 33. This name comes from hy, to conceal, and properly denotes the unsearchable,' the inscrutable God.'

These are, we believe, all the compound names of this class revealed before the captivity in Egypt: but after the deliverance from Egypt they become very numerous. In the Second Commandment God is called NP, "a jealous God" (Ex. xxxiv. 6). On Rachom, " merciful: "Chanum, "gracious:

רחום

Rab רב חסד ואמת : Erek Aphim, “ long suffering ארך אפים

Chased ve Emeth, "abundant in goodness and truth." It would lengthen this paper too much to dwell upon each of these titles, and we only remark, that the last of them is the union of those two qualities which the sin of the first Adam divided, and which the obedience of the Second Adam reconciled; in whom "mercy and truth met together, righteousness and peace kissed each other;" The (6 sure mercies of David" (Isai. lv. 3; Acts xiii. 34); "The Holy One" D (Psalm xvi.) who "saw no corruption;" "The Amen, the faithful and true Witness" (Rev. iii. 14).

El Emeth," the true God," occurs 2 Chron. xv. 3. El Gibbor is given to Christ, Isai. ix. 6, and Ps. xlv. 3. op and p" the God of Revenge," occurs Psalm xciv. and Nahum i. and there are many others similar.

Jehovah occurs but once with an epithet attached to it (Isai. xxxiii. 21): Adir Jehovah, "the glorious Lord." Jah, in like manner, has the epithet "strong" (Psalm lxxxix. 8): D Chasin: "Who is like thee, Mighty Jah." El, Elohim, Jah, Jehovah, Adonai, and Sabaoth, continually occur in every variety of combination, the peculiar force of which combinations may be easily gathered from the meaning of the several names. Elohim is combined with, singular, Isai. xxxvii. 17; and with D", plural, Deut. v. 23, 26; both signifying "the living God;" Plurality in Unity.

Some apology is necessary for the very brief mention we have made of some of the preceding names. We could with pleasure have enlarged, but it would have lengthened this paper too much for one number, and we thought it better not to divide it; but we may, perhaps, take up some of these names again at a future time. For the benefit of those who may wish to pursue the inquiry for themselves, we now subjoin a concordance of all the names, as full as we have been able to make it; but we have found all the Hebrew concordances, even Taylor's, very deficient and faulty in these names. We omit only Jehovah and Elohim; and as we give all the other names, these two are of course thus distinguished by not being given: so that where LORD occurs in the English, and is not mentioned in our list, it is Jehovah in the original; where GoD occurs in the same manner, it is Elohim. We subjoin, however, all the instances where Jehovah Elohim occurs absolutely, that our readers may judge for themselves of the truth of the reasons we have assigned for the sudden change after Gen. iii., of "the Lord God" for "Lord" alone, or "God" alone. We say absolutely, lest the English reader should suppose such expressions as "The Lord God of Israel," &c., to be Jehovah Elohim; whereas all these are Jehovah Elohe, which should be translated "Jehovah the God of Israel," connecting God with Israel, not with the Name Jehovah. Of Adonai pointed with kamets, which confines it to "God" alone, or rather to God in Christ, we also give a list; and where "Lord" not in capitals occurs in the English, and is omitted in the list, it is either Adoni, or pointed with pathach, in the original. The compound names, as ElHelion, El-Rachom, &c., are too numerous to be admitted in our present limits. Abarbanel observes, that Jehovah and Elohim are the only names used in prophetic revelations it is never said, Thus saith El, or, Thus saith Jah; but, Thus saith Jehovah, Thus saith Elohim, or, Thus saith Jehovah Elohim; but we may add, that Adonai is so used also. He further observes, that these two names are scarcely ever in construction with adjectives appellative, and Jehovah never, without the intervention of El, as, Jehovah El Rachom (Ex. xxxiv. 6).

SIMPLE NAMES OF GOD.

1. Generic.

Deut. xxxii. 4, 12, 18, 21; Isai. xliv. 10, 15, 17; Ezek. xxviii. 1,

Deut. xxxii. 17.

Deut. xxxii. 15, 17; Job xxxv. 10; Psal. cxiv. 7.

Deut. xxxii. 39; Josh. xxiv. 18.

.Deut. אֱלֹהִים

2. Personal or Proper Names.

Exod. iii. 12, 14; John viii 58.

Exod. xv. 2; Isai. xxxviii. 11; Psal. lxxxix. 8; cxv. 17, 18.
Exod. iii. 15: Psal. ii. 2; lxxxiii. 18; cx. 1; Deut. vi. 4.
3. Names of Attribute or Office.

Deut. xxxii. 39; Psal. xliv. 5; cii. 27; Isai. xli. 4; xliii. 10.
Psal. xcvii. 5; cxiv. 7; Isai. i. 24; iii. 1.

Psal. ii. 4; xc. 1; cx. 5; Dan. ix. 17; Isai. vi. 1, 8.

אָב

Deut. xxxii. 6; Psal. lxxxix. 26; Isai. lxiii. 16; lxiv. 7, 8.

Deut. xxxii. 4, 18, 30; Psal. lxxxix. 26; Isai. xliv. 8.

Gen. xlix. 24; Psal. cxxxii. 2, 5; Isai. i. 24; lx. 16.

77 Exod. xv. 6; Psal. viii. 1; Isai. xxxiii. 21.

Psal. xix. 14; lxxviii. 35; Isai. xliv. 24; xlviii. 17.

COMPOUND NAMES.

9.

.23 ,4 .Gen. ii יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים .18 .Psal. lxviii יָהּ אֱלֹהִים .Psal. lxxvi. 28; Ezek אֲדֹנָי יְהוָה .20 .Psal. cix. 21 ; lxvii יְהוָה אֲדֹנָי

.4 .Isai. xii. 2; xxvi יָהּ יְהוָה .1 .Psal. I אֵל אֱלֹהִים יְהוָה

.15 .Isai. iii אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה צְבָאוֹת .9 .Sam.i. 3; Isai.i 1 יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת 3, .18 .Gen. xiv אֵל עֶלִיוֹן

.1 .Gen. xvii אֵל שַׁדַי

.3 .Chron. xv 2 אֵל אֱמֶת ל .27 .Exod. xxii אֶל חַנוּן .1 .Nahum i אֵל נָקָם

.6 .Isai. ix אֶל גְבוֹר .6 .Exod. xxxiv אֶל רַחם

NPN Exod. xxxiv. 14.

.27 .Deut. xxxiii אֱלֹהִי קֶדֶם .6 .Mic. vi אֱלֹהִי מַרוֹם .17 .Isai. xxxvi אֱלֹהִים חָי .26 ,23 .Deut. v אֱלֹהִים חַיִים .19 .Josh. xxiv אֱלֹהִים קְדֹשִׁים .2 .Psal. cxxxvi אֱלֹהִי אֱלֹהִים .21 .Isai. xxxiii אֲדִיר יְהוָה .8 .Psal. lxxxix חֲסִין יָהּ .7 .Deut. iv אֱלֹהִים קְרֹבִים .10 .Job xxxv אֱלוֹהַ עֹשִׂי ,11 .Tsal. lvii אֱלֹהִים שֹׁפְטִים .13 .Gen. xx הִתְעוּ אֱלֹהִים

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ELOAH: Deut. xxxii. 15, 17; 2 Chron. xxxii. 15; Neh. ix. 17; Job iii. 4, 23; iv. 9; v. 17; vi. 4, 8, 9; ix. 13; x. 2; xi. 5, 6, 7; xii. 6; xv. 8; xvi. 20, 21; xix. 6, 21, 26; xxi. 9, 19; xxii. 12, 26; xxvii. 3, 8, 10; xxix. 2, 4; xxxi. 2, 6; xxxiii. 12, 26; xxxv. 10; xxxvii. 15, 22; xxxix. 17; xl. 2; Psal. xviii. 31; l. 22: cxiv. 7; cxxxix. 19; Prov. xxx. 5; Isa. xliv. 8; Dan. xi. 37, 39; Hab. iii. 3. I prefixed: Job xxiv. 12. xii. 4; xxxvi. 2; Dan. xi. 38.

prefixed: Job iv. 17.

prefixed: Job

.11 .Hab. i לו

JEHOVAH ELOHIM: Gen. ii. 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22 ;

iii. 1, 8; viii. 9, 13, 14, 20, 22, 23; Exod. ix. 30; 2 Sam. vii. 22, 25; 2 Kings xix. 19; 1 Chron. xvii. 16, 17; xxviii. 20; xxix. 1; 2 Chron. i. 9; vi. 41, 41, 42; xxvi. 18; Psal. lxxxiv. 11.

JAH: Exod. xv. 2; Psal. lxviii. 4, 18; lxxvii. 11; lxxxix. 8; xciv. 7, 12 ; cii. 18; cxv. 17; cxviii. 5, 5, 14, 17, 18; cxxii. 4; cxxxv. 4; Isai. xii. 2; xxvi. 4; xxxviii. 11, 11. Vehement flame-Flame of Jah: Cant. viii. 6. Halleluiah: Psal. civ. 35; cv. 45; cvi. 1, 48; cxi. 1; cxii. 1; cxiii. 1, 9; cxv. 18; cxvi. 19; cxvii. 2; cxviii. 19; cxxxv. 1, 3, 21 ; cxlvi. 1,10; cxlvii.

1, 20; cxlviii. 1, 14; cxlix. 1, 9; cl. 1, 6.

EL: Gen. xiv. 18, 19, 20, 22; xvi. 13; xvii. 1; xxi. 33; xxxv. 1, 3, 11 ; xlviii. 3; xlix. 25; Exod. xv. 2; xx. 5; xxxiv. 6, 14; Num. iii. 24; xii. 13; xvi. 22; xxiii. 8, 19, 22, 23; xxiv. 4, 8; Deut. iii. 24; iv. 24, 31-Jealous: v. 9; vi. 15-Mighty: vii. 21; xxxii. 4, 12, 18, 21; xxxiii. 26; Josh. iii. 10; xxii. 22, 22; xxiv. 19, 19; 1 Sam. ii. 3; 2 Sam. xxii. 32; xxiii. 5; Neh. ix. 31; Job v. 8; viii. 5, 13, 20; ix. 2; xii. 6; xiii. 3, 7, 8; xv. 4, 13, 25; xvi. 11; xviii. 21; xix. 22; xx. 15, 29; xxi. 14, 22; xxii. 2, 13, 17; xxv. 4; xxvii. 2, 9, 11, 13; xxxi. 14, 23, 28; xxxii. 13; xxxiii. 4, 6, 14, 29; xxxiv. 10, 12, 23, 31, 37; xxxv. 2, 13; xxxvi. 5, 22, 26; xxxvii. 5, 10, 14; xxxviii. 41; xl. 9, 19; Psal. v. 4; x. 11, 12; xvi. 1; xvii. 6; xviii. 2; xix. 1; xxii. 1, 1, 10; xxix. 3; xxxi. 5; xlii. 2, 8, 9; xliii. 4; xliv. 20; 1. 1; lii. 1, 5; lv. 1; lvii. 2; lxiii. 1; lxviii. 24; lxxiii. 11, 17; lxxiv. 8; lxxvii. 9; lxxviii. 7, 8, 18, 19, 34, 41; lxxxi. 9; lxxxii. 1; lxxxiii. 1; lxxxiv. 2; lxxxvi. 15; lxxxix. 7, 26; xc. 2; xciv. 1; xcv. 3; xcix. 8; cii. 24; civ. 21; cvi. 14, 21; cvii. 11; cxviii. 27; cxxxvi. 26; cxxxix. 17, 23; cxl. 6; cxlvi. 5; cxlix. 6; cl. 1; Isai. viii. 10; ix. 6; x. 21; xii. 2; xiv. 13; xl. 18; xliii. 10, 12: xliv. 10, 15, 17; xlv. 14, 15, 20, 21, 22; xlvi. 6, 9; Jer. li. 56; Lam. iii. 41; Ezek. x. 5; xxviii. 2, 2, 9; Dan. xi. 36, 36; Hos. i. 10; xi. 9, 12; Jonah iv. 2; Mic. vii. 18; Nahum i. 2: Zech. vii. 2; Mal. i. 9; ii. 10. Mountains of God: Psal. xxxvi. 6. Cedars of God: Psal. lxxx.10. El Elohe: Gen. xxxiii. 20. El Bethel: xxxv. 7.

Gen. xxviii. 3; xliii. 14; Job xxiii. 16; xxxiv. 5; Psal. vii. 11; lxxviii. 35.

Gen. xxxi. 13; xlvi. 3; Deut. vii. 9; x. 17; 2 Sam. xxi. 31, 33, 48; Neh. i. 5; ix. 32; Job viii. 3; Psal. xviii. 30, 32, 47; lxviii. 19, 20; lxxvii. 14; lxxxvi. 8; xxxii. 18; Dan. ix. 4; Isai. v. 16; Exod. vi. 3.

ADONAI: Gen. xviii. 3, 27, 30, 31, 32; xix. 18; xx. 4; Exod. iv. 13, 10; v. 22; xv. 17; xxxiv. 9, 9; Num. xiv. 17; Josh. vii. 8; Judg. vi. 15;