Jeremiah 23:24
Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
“24 Can a man hide himself in secret places where “I” [ha-Ga’al: the-Avenger, the-Redeemer, etc..] cannot see him?”—the ‘Lord’s’ [YHWH’s: the name, Word and Works, of Israel’s ‘Elohiym’s, etc..] declaration. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?”—the ‘Lord’s’ [YHWH’s: the name, Word and Works, of Israel’s ‘Elohiym’s, etc..] declaration.”
Strong’s Hebrew Lexicon:
I: 1350 ga’al gaw-al’ a primitive root, to redeem (according to the Oriental law of kinship), i.e. to be the next of kin (and as such to buy back a relative’s property, marry his widow, etc.):–X in any wise, X at all, avenger, deliver[er], (do, perform the part of near, next) kinsfolk(-man), purchase, ransom, redeem(-er), revenger.
‘Elohiym: 430 ‘elohiym el-o-heem’ plural of 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:–angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great[ones], judges, X mighty[ones].
Other:
‘L-rd’ (‘Adonay’): In scripture replaces the Creators’ name (YHWH) approximately 7000 times; a word that can mean master, head of household, and most importantly – Baal, the arch enemy of YHWH: ‘Baal, ‘god’ [eloah] worshipped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities, especially among the Canaanites, who apparently considered him a fertility deity and one of the most important ‘gods’ (‘elohiym) in the pantheon. As a Semitic common noun baal (Hebrew baʿal) meant “owner” or “lord,” ‘etc… See source here.
YHWH (יהוה): “Modern scholars generally agree that YHWH is derived from the Hebrew triconsonantal root היה (h-y-h), “to be, become, come to pass”,[3] an archaic form of which is הוה (h-w-h),[4] with a third person masculine y- prefix, equivalent to English “he”. They connect it to [eg.] Exodus 3:14, where the divinity [‘Elohiym of Israel] who spoke with Moses responds to a question about his name by declaring: אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה (Ehyeh asher ehyeh), “I am that I am” or “I will be what I will be”[5](in Biblical Hebrew the form of the verb here is not associated with any particular English tense).[6][7][8]
[THE NAME THAT EXPRESSES THE WORD AND WORKS OF ISRAEL’S ‘ELOHIYM; “I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE”]…. Cont’d at Source: Tetragrammaton
