שַׁדַּי
Shadday · shad-dah'-ee
the Almighty
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7703 (שָׁדַד);
the Almighty
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Almighty.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the doorway, the way in › the hand that works
To consume, to destroy of the doorway, the way in of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שַׁדַּי above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
48 occurrences · 48 OT · 0 NT · 19 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the almighty13 · 27%
- almighty5 · 10%
- to the almighty4 · 8%
- from the almighty3 · 6%
- and the almighty2 · 4%
- when the almighty2 · 4%
- neither will the almighty2 · 4%
- unto him, i am the almighty1 · 2%
- the almighty1 · 2%
- for the almighty1 · 2%
- against me, and the almighty1 · 2%
- or doth the almighty1 · 2%
- out the almighty1 · 2%
- himself against the almighty1 · 2%
- what is the almighty1 · 2%
- from us: and what can the almighty1 · 2%
- yea, the almighty1 · 2%
- in the almighty1 · 2%
- himself in the almighty1 · 2%
- that which is with the almighty1 · 2%
- is, that the almighty1 · 2%
- and from the almighty1 · 2%
- touching the almighty1 · 2%
- with the almighty1 · 2%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.