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 παντοκράτωρ 14 (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, || אֲדֹנָי, בעלי NöSBA 1880, 775; ZMG xlii (1888), 481; HoffmPh. Inscr. 53; used of foreign deities ([Deut 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. Isa ii.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 [Ruth 1:20]; [Ruth 1:21]; [Ps 68:15]; [Ps 91:1]; [Joel 1:15] = [Isa 13:6]; [Ezek 1:24] (strike out Co); especially [Job 5:17] + 30:t. Job (+ [Job 19:29] Ew Di, reading ׳שׁ for שׁדין).
2. אֵל שַׁדַּי [Gen 49:25] (poem; so read for ׳אֵת שׁ, see ⅏ ᵐ5 ᵑ6 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]; [Exod 6:3]; [Gen 43:14] (RP); so [Ezek 10:5] (strike out Co; but ᵐ5 Σαδδαι).
שַׁדּ֯יּן [Job 19:29] see דין above.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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