Exodus 6:3 (KJV)

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And I appeared unto Abraham unto Isaac and unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them

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God Almighty.{El shadday,} God Almighty; for {shadday} is evidently of affinity with the Arabic {shadid,} strong, mighty, and {shiddat,} strength, might; so the LXX. in Job render it [panto krator,] Vulgate, in Pentateuch, {Omnipotens,} and Syriac, in Job, {chasino.} Ge 17:1 Ge 28:3 Ge 35:11 Ge 48:3

JEHOVAH. Ex 3:14 Ge 12:7 Ge 12:8 Ge 13:18 Ge 22:14 Ps 68:4

JAH. Ps 83:18 Isa 42:8 Isa 44:6 Isa 52:5 Isa 52:6 Joh 8:58 Re 1:4

but by my name.If Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, did not know the name Jehovah, then Moses must have used it in Genesis by prolepsis, or anticipation. Mr. Locke and others read it interrogatively, for the negative particle, {lo,} not, has frequently this power in Hebrew: "I appeared unto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, and by my name Jehovah was I not also made known unto them?"

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