WHAT DOES GOD, God, and god, LORD, Lord and lord MEAN.pdf

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What does GOD, God, god, LORD, Lord and lord mean?

One thing concern me from reading the Bible, using the word LORD, all fourletters in caps that should be reserved forYahweh and not some golden calf.

Earthly idols or men who seem to be a deity, the word god/s in all lower caseform is reserved for that purpose. Throughout the Bible you see the words,

LORD, Lord & lord, why are their three different types of this word and whatdo they mean? If well studied the Bible also contains the three differences of theword God, GOD, God &god, what does it mean? Are their principles to thesewords going from all caps to a capital letter and lower case letters to the wholeword being all lower case? Lets go into this so people can understand better.

Examples from the Bible:Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Isa 56:8 The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will Igather [others] to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.

John 10:34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

Deut 6:21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen inEgypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:,

Eph 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Gen 40:1 - And it came to pass after these things, [that] the butler of the kingof Egypt and [his] baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.

This troublesome of words can be confusing to the average reader who is notpaying attention to what they are reading, and not knowing there are principlesinvolved in reading these different category of words.

The rule in the differences now can be seen and understood, yet it is veryexhausting mentally to try and remember this.


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GOD PRINCIPLEGOD, in all capital letters as in Genesis 15:2 conjoined with Lord i.e. LordGODis designated to mean Yahweh Elohim, to better understand Yahwehthe Most High (GOD). Elohim therefore tells us the meaning is THE MOSTHIGH over all things.

God, in this form when alone is Elohim or Eloah and YHWH, in Aramaic form itsElah. Genesis 1:1 God=Elohim the uni-plural.

god, in all lower case letters is earthly deities, such as a rock, stone alter, peoplereferring to themselves as a god, idols etc. This god version is not above God orGOD in their variations.

LORD PRINCIPLE

LORD, in all capitals is designated for YHWH, or Yahweh, most frequently inthe Old Testament. The word Yahweh is not frequent in the New Testament.When you see Adon or Adonay and YHWH appear together Adon is translatedLORD and Yahweh is God, i.e. Genesis 15:2 etc.

Lord, with the L as a capital letter in the New Testament is a term used forGod and Jesus (pbuh).

lord, with all letters in lower case form is the term actually used for earthly mensuch as kings as the example in Genesis 40:1.

This is the problem I had with what Aaron said according to the Bible whenmaking the idol he used the word LORD in all caps when its reserved for

YHWH only.

Exodus 32:5And when Aaron saw [it], he built an altar before it;and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow [is]

a feast to the LORD.

In my humble opinion it should have been either lord or god all lower case

denoting an earthly deity. To me he profaned the LORDS name in vain. TheIsraelites were reluctant to even use the word YHWH let alone call a heathenisticidol that name, that is pure blaspheme.


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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

1. Elohim:

The first form of the Divine name in the Bible is Elohim, ordinarilytranslated "God" (Ge 1:1). This is the most frequently used name in the Old

Testament, as its equivalent theos, is in the New Testament, occurring in Gealone approximately 200 t. It is one of a group of kindred words, to which belongalso El and Eloah. (1) Its form is plural, but the construction is uniformlysingular, i.e. it governs a singular verb or adjective, unless used of heathendivinities (Ps 96:5; 97:7). It is characteristic of Hebrew that extension,magnitude and dignity, as well as actual multiplicity, are expressed by the plural.It is not reasonable, therefore, to assume that plurality of form indicatesprimitive Semitic polytheism. On the contrary, historic Hebrew is unquestionablyand uniformly monotheistic.

The derivation is quite uncertain. Gesenius, Ewald and others find its origin in ul,"to be strong," from which also are derived ayil, "ram," and elah, "terebinth"; itis then an expanded plural form of el; others trace it to alah, "to terrify," andthe singular form is found in the infrequent eloah, which occurs chiefly inpoetical books; BDB inclines to the derivation from alah, "to be strong," as theroot of the three forms, El, Eloah and Elohim, although admitting that thewhole question is involved in uncertainty (for full statement see BDB, under theword ...); a somewhat fanciful suggestion is theArabic root ul, "to be in front,"from which comes the meaning "leader"; and still more fanciful is the suggestedconnection with the preposition el, signifying God as the "goal" of mans life andaspiration. The origin must always lie in doubt, since the derivation is prehistoric,

and the name, with its kindred words El and Eloah, is common to Semiticlanguages and religions and beyond the range of Hebrew records.

Yahweh (Yahweh):

The name most distinctive of God as the God of Israel is (Yahweh, a combinationof the tetragrammaton (YHWH) with the vowels of Adhonay, transliterated as

Yehowah, but read aloud by the Hebrews adhonay). While both derivation andmeaning are lost to us in the uncertainties of its ante-Biblical origin, the following

inferences seem to be justified by the facts:

(1) This name was common to religions other than Israels, according to Friedr.Delitzsch, Hommel, Winckler, and Guthe (EB, under the word), having beenfound in Babylonian inscriptions. Ammonite, Arabic and Egyptian namesappear also to contain it (compare Davidson, Old Testament Theol., 52 f); butwhile, like Elohim, it was common to primitive Semitic religion, it became Israelsdistinctive name for the Deity.

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