Job 28 (WEB)

God

Also called
LORD, Lord, Father, hosts, Almighty, Holy, GOD, Saviour, last, JEHOVAH, Judge, father, lawgiver, Fathers, dayspring, host, Ancient
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Children AdamEve

Yahweh, the Personal Name of God

Word Study | Israel Loken • Hershel Wayne House
יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh ·Strong's H3068

Strictly speaking, the only personal name of God belonging to Him alone, and the most significant name of God found in the Old Testament (over 5000 times).  Yahweh is the approximate (and likely) pronunciation of the tetragrammaton, the four-letter word YHWH.  When Moses asked what His name was to take back to the Hebrews in Egypt, God replied, “I AM THAT I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶֽהְיֶ֑ה ehyeh esher ehyeh): and he said, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה, ehyeh, 1st person singular, giving God's declaration of His name) has sent me to you” (Exod 3:14).  Thus God revealed to Moses the very essential meaning of His name as Yahweh (יְהוָ֞ה, Yahweh, 3rd person singular, the response of the people of God, He is).  There is a strong indication that Jesus (or Yeshua, Yahweh is salvation) used this name and its divine implication to apply to himself when he said, “Before Abraham was, I AM” (ἐγὼ εἰμί, egō eimi) (John 8:58).  Thus, the very Person who spoke to Moses out of the burning bush was the very same Person who addressed the startled Jews in the Gospel of John.

For a more complete discussion of the personal name of God, see the passage in Exodus in which He reveals His name to Moses, Exodus 3:14, 15.

A Name of God (אֱלֹהִים; 'elohim)

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House
אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym ·Strong's H430

This is a generic name for the divine being. In the Hebrew Bible, the word is regularly used in the plural in reference to the God of Israel but in regard to His majesty or intensity. The plural has a third person singular with the God of Israel, but a third plural with foreign deities.

Abba, Father

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House • Steve Stanley
Ἀββᾶ Abbâ ·Strong's G5

This Aramaic term is used only three times in the NT and approximately 80 times in the writings of the early church fathers when quoting or paraphrasing Jesus’ words. It is translated by the very next word in this verse as ὁ πατήρ (ho pater) “the Father,” as it is in all three NT uses. Jesus spoke in Aramaic, and Hebrew, both languages being used in Israel. In Jesus’ day, abba was used for the father in the family, and was a customary title for God in prayer among the Jews. It was eventually taken over by Greek-speaking Christians as a liturgical formula. Some posit that abba is equivalent to “daddy,” an American English term for “father.” This assumes that the American informality expressed by children toward their father would have an analogy in Jesus’ culture, an assumption difficult to sustain. It is, therefore, not appropriate to refer to God as “daddy.” Linguistically, then, abba means "father" in Hebrew, Greek and English. It must be noted, however, that while “father” is a term of respect in biblical literature, it is also a term of affection, very deep and abiding affection. With His use of “Abba,” Jesus expresses His respectful and intimate relationship with His Heavenly Father in prayer, a wonderful example for all believers.

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Job 28 (WEB)

1“Surely there is a mine for silver,

and a place for gold which they refine.

2Iron is taken out of the earth,

and copper is smelted out of the ore.

3Man sets an end to darkness,

and searches out, to the furthest bound,

the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

4He breaks open a shaft away from where people live.

They are forgotten by the foot.

They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

5As for the earth, out of it comes bread.

Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

6Sapphires come from its rocks.

It has dust of gold.

7That path no bird of prey knows,

neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.

8The proud animals have not trodden it,

nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

9He puts his hand on the flinty rock,

and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

10He cuts out channels among the rocks.

His eye sees every precious thing.

11He binds the streams that they don’t trickle.

The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.

12“But where will wisdom be found?

Where is the place of understanding?

13Man doesn’t know its price,

and it isn’t found in the land of the living.

14The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’

The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’

15It can’t be gotten for gold,

neither will silver be weighed for its price.

16It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir,

with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

17Gold and glass can’t equal it,

neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

18No mention will be made of coral or of crystal.

Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

19The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it.

It won’t be valued with pure gold.

20Where then does wisdom come from?

Where is the place of understanding?

21Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living,

and kept close from the birds of the sky.

22Destruction and Death say,

‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’

23“God understands its way,

and he knows its place.

24For he looks to the ends of the earth,

and sees under the whole sky.

25He establishes the force of the wind.

Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

26When he made a decree for the rain,

and a way for the lightning of the thunder,

27then he saw it, and declared it.

He established it, yes, and searched it out.

28To man he said,

‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom.

To depart from evil is understanding.’”

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