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I'm Joel Mo Jiaming. Born in 1986, 22nd July. Speaking about birthdays when I say 'it's alright' or 'anything's fine', don't take my word for it. What I really meant was 'get me ANYTHING nice and expensive, it's FINE if you get broke, I don't really care. Hah. Kidding duh.
Occupation? Defending Singapore from the scum of the universe. I rule the battlefield with my trusty telephone! NO COMMS NO WAR! RAHH
I believe in JESUS, the one true saviour. No witty comment needed here, cuz just mentioning his name is already oh so cool.

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I found some really cool stuff tho it could be a bit wordy, coz I just copied and pasted. Man, I'm plagiarizing again! Haha... Thanks Uncle Francis for asking me to do this, really interesting stuff. People who know me should know, I'm really a very last minute person, always putting off what I need to do or want to do to the last minute. So doing this the moment I reached home is really unlike me. Haha...

This is about God's name, Elohim. Uncle Francis asked me to go find out about my name, Joel. And that the 'El' in my name means something. I did some research on it, going to Joel Tay's gang's website (AiG) and searching google.

Elohim is the common name for God. It is a plural form, but "The usage of the language gives no support to the supposition that we have in the plural form Elohim, applied to the God of Israel, the remains of an early polytheism, or at least a combination with the higher spiritual beings" (Kautzsch). Grammarians call it a plural of majesty or rank, or of abstraction, or of magnitude (Gesenius, Grammatik, 27th ed., nn. 124 g, 132 h). The Ethiopic plural amlak has become a proper name of God. Hoffmann has pointed out an analogous plural elim in the Phoenician inscriptions (Ueber einige phon. Inschr., 1889, p. 17 sqq.), and Barton has shown that in the tablets from El-Amarna the plural form ilani replaces the singular more than forty times (Proceedings of the American Oriental Society, 21-23 April, 1892, pp. cxcvi-cxcix).

The Use of the Word

The Hebrews had three common names of God, El, Elohim, and Eloah; besides, they had the proper name Yahweh. Nestle is authority for the statement that Yahweh occurs about six thousand times in the Old Testament, while all the common names of God taken together do not occur half as often. The name Elohim is found 2570 times; Eloah, 57 times [41 in Job; 4 in Pss.; 4 in Dan.; 2 in Hab.; 2 in Canticle of Moses (Deut., xxxii); 1 in Prov., 1 in Is.; 1 in Par.; 1 in Neh. (II Esd.)]; El, 226 times (Elim, 9 times). Lagrange (Etudes sur les religions sémitiques, Paris, 1905, p. 71) infers from Gen., xlvi, 3 (the most mighty God of thy father), Ex., vi, 3 (by the name of God Almighty), and from the fact that El replaces Yah in proper names, the conclusion that El was at first a proper and personal name of God. Its great age may be shown from its general occurrence among all the Semitic races, and this in its turn may be illustrated by its presence in the proper names found in Gen., iv, 18; xxv, 13; xxxvi, 43. Elohim is not found among all the Semitic races; the Aramaeans alone seem to have had an analogous form. It has been suggested that the name Elohim must have been formed after the descendants of Shem had separated into distinct nations.

Meaning of the Word

If Elohim be regarded as derived from El, its original meaning would be "the strong one" according to Wellhausen's derivation of El, from ul (Skizzen, III, 169); or "the foremost one", according to Nöldeke's derivation of El from ul or il, "to be in front" (Sitzungsberichte der berlinischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1880, pp. 760 sqq.; 1882, pp. 1175 sqq.); or "the mighty one", according to Dillmann's derivation of El from alah or alay, "to be mighty" (On Genesis, I, 1); or, finally "He after whom one strives", "Who is the goal of all human aspiration and endeavour", "to whom one has recourse in distress or when one is in need of guidance", "to who one attaches oneself closely", coincidentibus interea bono et fine, according to the derivation of El from the preposition el, "to", advocated by La Place (cf. Lagarde, Uebersicht, etc., p. 167), Lagarde (op. cit., pp. 159 sqq.), Lagrange (Religions semitiques, pp. 79 sqq.), and others.

In Biblical times a person’s name had deep significance and was often an expression of his or her origin, character or destiny.

Names were an important subject in ancient times. The Egyptians considered a name to hold special spiritual significance. Out of respect for their gods they often incorporated a god’s name within their own, such as Tutankhamen (living image of Amen).

Specifically masculine or feminine endings were often customary in personalizing the name of a child, but royal names had no denotion of male or female. Sometimes a nickname like ‘Red’ might be applied to someone with auburn hair, just as today. The name Amenhotep was commonly abbreviated to Ameny.

Hebrew names carried great importance also, for example Jesus (Joshua in the Old Testament)means ‘God saves’. The act of naming was an exercise in authority. 2 Kings 23:34 reads that the Egyptian Pharoah Neco appointed Eliakim (‘El raises’) puppet King of Judah, and renamed him Jehoiakim (‘Yahweh raises’), presumably to assert his authority over him.

Adam was given the task of naming all the animals. Jacob had his name changed to Israel by the angel with whom he struggled, and Abram was the former name of Abraham. God’s names denote his characteristics in a way we can understand. The whole significance of names has become largely lost in modern western cultures. Naming children often depends simply upon a liking for a particular celebrity rather than on any spiritual significance.

So my name Joel means: God is willing, Jehovah is the Lord.

Cool stuff huh?! Haha... Man, this post looks like something from Professor Tay's blog. Haha... Well, have a nice week ahead! =)

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