There are other names of God that we can deduce–or “see”–from reading about Him in the pages of His Word. For example, in Hebrews 1:1-4, we read these words: “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these la...
He is also called theGod of Abraham(Genesis 31:42; Psalm 47:9) and once the God of Nahor, in the mouth of Laban, though Laban worshipped the gods of Assyria, not Abraham's God (Genesis 31:53) Sometimes the patriarchs are named together -- theGod of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob(Exo...
A midrash deepens the significance of the name. To be sure, it derives from the word eiver, meaning beyond or other side as in Joshua’s swan song: “In olden times, your forefathers…lived beyond the Euphrates…(be-eiver ha-nahar) and worshipped other gods. But I took your father Ab...
6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. 7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may ...