Word

שַׁדַּי

Shadday · H7706 · Hebrew · 48 occurrences

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Meanings

All-Sufficient One

Exact meaning unsure, possibly: the All-Sufficient One (from שֶׁדַי the one who is sufficient); hence: a biblical title for the highest God, creator of heaven and earth

Examples
Genesis 49:25 From the God of your father who helps you, And by the Almighty who blesses you With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that lies beneath, Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Ruth 1:20 But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
Ruth 1:21 “I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me and the Almighty has afflicted me?”
El Shaddai, God the All-Sufficient One

Exact meaning unsure, possibly: God the All-Sufficient One (from שֶׁדַי the one who is sufficient); hence: a biblical title for the highest God, creator of heaven and earth

Examples
Genesis 17:1 Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; Walk before Me, and be blameless.
Genesis 28:3 “May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a multitude of peoples.
Genesis 35:11 God also said to him, “I am God Almighty; Be fruitful and multiply; A nation and a multitude of nations shall come from you, And kings shall come from you.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

7 occurrences in 1 groups

אֵלGod, god 7

What it doesIt is the subject

10 occurrences in 9 groups

Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (10) 10

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

כָּחַדto hide, to cut off 1

What it is said to bePredicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

חַיalive, living 1
מָהwhat?, why? 1
נִיme 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

14 occurrences in 7 groups

אֵלto, toward 6
מִןfrom 6
עַלon, upon, over, against 4
עִםwith 3
עַדto, as far as, until 2
אֵתwith 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

12 occurrences in 10 groups

Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 2 words

παντοκράτωρ pantokrátōr · G3841 · the Almighty, the One who has all power: Greek παντοκράτωρ (pantokratōr, 'all-ruling/Almighty') is the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew שַׁדַּי (Shaddai, 'Almighty'), functioning as the direct translation equivalent for this divine title across both testaments.
θεός theós · G2316 · God, god: Greek θεός renders Hebrew שַׁדַּי when translating the divine epithet 'Almighty' as the more general 'God,' collapsing the specific Hebrew title into the standard Greek term for deity.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of Deities003001004: This is the divine title "Almighty," as in Genesis 17:1's "I am God Almighty; walk before Me, and be blameless" — a name for God, not a common descriptive term.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

שָׁדַד shâdad · H7703 · to ravage, to devastate, to lay waste · 58×שַׁדַּיShadday · H7706שִׁדָּה shiddâh · H7705 · many concubines, many coffers, many chests · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7706. Shadday שַׁדַּי48 noun masculine, of deity (etymology dubious (I) Aq Symm Theod…

H7706. Shadday
שַׁדַּי48 noun masculine, of deity (etymology dubious (I) Aq Symm Theod ἱκανός; Rabb שֶֿׁ + דַּי (self-) sufficient, no moderns. (2) = almighty, √ שׁדד + י = Thes De Di Sta, or √שׁדה = שׁדד, intensive noun Ew§ 155 c, but שׁדד (q. v.) is deal violently not simply mightily; compare ᵐ5 παντοκράτωρ14(15) t. (but in Pentateuch ׳אלשׁ is ό Θεόχ μου, σου, etc.), ᵑ9 mostly omnipotens. (3) < conjecture for original שֵׁדַי (see שֵׁד) my sovereign lord, || בעלי אֲדֹנָי, NöSBA 1880, 775; ZMG xlii (1888), 481; HoffmPh. Inscr. 53; used of foreign deities (Deu 32:17), and so discredited (compare בַּעַל). — > other conjectures, e.g. RSOTJC, 424 √שׁדה pour forth (God as rain-giver); DlPr 96 followed by Assyrian šadû, high, ilu šâdû a, CheComm. Isaiah 2:148, or šadû, mountain, also in proper name; see further DrGen 404 ff.); —
1 שַׁדַּי Num 24:4, Num 24:16 (J E, poem), and so as archaism Rth 1:20-21, Psa 68:15; Psa 91:1; Joe 1:15 = Isa 13:6; Eze 1:24 (strike out Co); especially Job 5:17 + 30:t. Job (+ Job 19:29 Ew Di, reading ׳שׁ for שׁדין).
2 שַׁדַּי אֵל Gen 49:25 (poem; so read for שׁ ׳אֵת, see ᵑ6 ᵐ5 ⅏ Saad, Hebrew Manuscripts), and so, as archaism, divine name of patriarchs in P, Gen 17:1; Gen 28:3; Gen 35:11; Gen 48:3; Exo 6:3; Gen 43:14 (RP); so Eze 10:5 (strike out Co; but ᵐ5 Σαδδαι).
שַׁדּ֯יּן Job 19:29 see דין above.
שׁדם √of following; meaning unknown).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Titles for Deities48 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0