Lexicon
שַׁדַּי
shad.day
H7706
H:N-M Hebrew

Almighty

48
Occurrences
9
Books
Hebrew
Language

shad.day is a proper divine designation used of God in speech, blessing, judgment, and human appeal in the Bible.

The term functions as a proper designation for God across direct self-identification, blessings, appeals and disputes, descriptions of divine justice or power, and pronouncements of calamity. The supplied forms are consistently tagged Noun · Proper, while the surrounding clauses present the same referent in varied settings rather than establishing separate lexical senses.

Senses in use

  1. Proper designation for God · dominant

    The form is tagged Noun · Proper in every cited occurrence. In Genesis 17:1 the APB renders God’s self-identification to Abram as “El the Almighty”; Genesis 28:3 places the designation in a blessing for fruitfulness and multiplication, while Job 13:3 and Job 31:35 place it in Job’s stated desire to speak to and receive an answer from God. Isaiah 13:6 uses it in the announcement that coming disaster is “like violence from the Almighty.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the designation as “the Almighty,” including self-identification, blessing, judgment, and appeal. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, its English wording confirms the clauses’ overall presentation but does not independently define the term.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture