Brown-Driver-Briggs
שַׁדַּי48 noun masculine, of deity (etymology dubious (I) Aq Symm Theod
ἱκανός; Rabb
שֶֿׁ +
דַּי (self-)
sufficient, no moderns. (2) =
almighty, √
שׁדד +
י = Thes De Di Sta, or √
שׁדה =
שׁדד, intensive noun Ew
§ 155 c, but
שׁדד (q. v.) is
deal violently not simply
mightily; compare
ᵐ5 παντοκράτωρ14(15) t. (but in Pentateuch
׳אלשׁ is
ό Θεόχ μου, σου, etc.),
ᵑ9 mostly
omnipotens. (3) < conjecture for original
שֵׁדַי (see
שֵׁד)
my sovereign lord, ""
אֲדֹנָי,
בעלי Nö
SBA 1880, 775; ZMG xlii (1888), 481; Hoffm
Ph. Inscr. 53; used of foreign deities (Deuteronomy 32:17), and so discredited (compare
בַּעַל). — > other conjectures, e.g. RS
OTJC, 424 √
שׁדה pour forth (God as rain-giver); Dl
Pr 96 followed by Assyrian
šadû, high, ilu šâdû a, Che
Comm. Isaiah 2:148, or
šadû, mountain, also in proper name; see further Dr
Gen 404 ff.); —
1 שַׁדַּי Numbers 24:4,16 (J E, poem), and so as archaism Ruth 1:20,21; Psalm 68:15; Psalm 91:1; Joel 1:15 = Isaiah 13:6; Ezekiel 1:24 (strike out Co); especially Job 5:17 + 30:t. Job (+ Job 19:29 Ew Di, reading ׳שׁ for שׁדין).
2 אֵל שַׁדַּי Genesis 49:25 (poem; so read for ׳אֵת שׁ, see ⅏ ᵐ5 ᵑ6 Saad, Hebrew Manuscripts), and so, as archaism, divine name of patriarchs in P, Genesis 17:1; Genesis 28:3; Genesis 35:11; Genesis 48:3; Exodus 6:3; Genesis 43:14 (RP); so Ezekiel 10:5 (strike out Co; but ᵐ5 Σαδδαι).
שַׁדּ֯יּן Job 19:29 see דין above.
שׁדם √of following; meaning unknown).