Almighty
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
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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.