Job 39 (WEB)

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LORD, Lord, Father, hosts, Almighty, Holy, GOD, Saviour, last, JEHOVAH, Judge, father, lawgiver, Fathers, dayspring, host, Ancient
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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 39 (WEB)

1“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth?

Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

2Can you count the months that they fulfill?

Or do you know the time when they give birth?

3They bow themselves. They bear their young.

They end their labor pains.

4Their young ones become strong.

They grow up in the open field.

They go out, and don’t return again.

5“Who has set the wild donkey free?

Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

6whose home I have made the wilderness,

and the salt land his dwelling place?

7He scorns the tumult of the city,

neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.

8The range of the mountains is his pasture.

He searches after every green thing.

9“Will the wild ox be content to serve you?

Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

10Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness?

Or will he till the valleys after you?

11Will you trust him, because his strength is great?

Or will you leave to him your labor?

12Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed,

and gather the grain of your threshing floor?

13“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,

but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

14For she leaves her eggs on the earth,

warms them in the dust,

15and forgets that the foot may crush them,

or that the wild animal may trample them.

16She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers.

Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

17because God has deprived her of wisdom,

neither has he imparted to her understanding.

18When she lifts up herself on high,

she scorns the horse and his rider.

19“Have you given the horse might?

Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?

20Have you made him to leap as a locust?

The glory of his snorting is awesome.

21He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength.

He goes out to meet the armed men.

22He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed,

neither does he turn back from the sword.

23The quiver rattles against him,

the flashing spear and the javelin.

24He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage,

neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

25As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’

He smells the battle afar off,

the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

26“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars,

and stretches her wings toward the south?

27Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up,

and makes his nest on high?

28On the cliff he dwells and makes his home,

on the point of the cliff and the stronghold.

29From there he spies out the prey.

His eyes see it afar off.

30His young ones also suck up blood.

Where the slain are, there he is.”

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