- El Roi
El Roi is one of the biblical names of
God represented by the HebrewBible .Different understandings
Hebrew and Christian Bible
As with
El Bethel , El 'Olam,El Shadday ,El Berith ,Elohim and numerous other formations in the Bible as translated into English, El Roi is a descriptive epithet forgod using the word "El" for "God" and another modifier indicating a quality of God.In the
Hebrew bible book ofGenesis ,Hagar called the divine protagonist, El Roi. Roi means “seeing". To Hagar, God revealed Himself as “The God Who sees".Hagar is a distraught, frightened, pregnant, non-
Israelite slave girl who encounters God in a desert, and feeling she has been miracuously aided by Him, calls him this name. It is possible that the construction using 'el' and the specific construction 'el roi' is drawn from Hagar's cultural understanding of and name for god rather than being an Israelite construction.El Roi: The name
El means “God, god, mighty one, strength". It is used to denote “either the generic name ‘god’ or ‘the God’ of Israel". In some instances of a significant encounter with Elohim, believers would form a compound of El and a word which described God’s revelation of Himself in that encounter.other sources
[http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/S256.html roi] is the god of the well.
ENTRY: ry.DEFINITION: West Semitic, to see. rai, perhaps from dialectal Arabic (h ar-)ray, (here is the) view, from ray, view, opinion, from ra, to see.
In the story of Abraham in thePentateuch , or book of the law, el roi presents the view of Hagar in fleeing from thesharia law ofSarah . Hagar is Egyptian. Her Egyptian name isHotep which in Egyptian means the written law. The phrase m hotep means in law is peace. Her semitic root ha= the, gar = read is the same as that used in the Koran
The legal sense of the story is thus to argue the legitimacy of the precedents to the ten commandments as the inheritance of Abraham.ENTRY: qr.DEFINITION: To call (out), read, summon. Koran; Alcoran, from Arabic (al-)qurn, (the) reading, Koran, from qaraa, to read, recite.
other uses of 'El
Jacob called the place where God had revealed Himself to him personally El Bethel. Bethel means “house". This geographical location became to Jacob “The House of God.�?Abraham called Him El ‘Olam. ‘Olam means “everlasting". God had revealed Himself to Abraham as being the eternal, everlasting God.
In the
book of Judges is found the name El Berith. Berith means “covenant".
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