Gen 17:1, 18:14, 43:14, 48:3-4, Exo 6:3, 2Cor 6:18 | TSK | STEP | God renews the covenant with Abram, and changes his name to Abraham, in token of a greater blessing. Circumcision is instituted. Sarai's name is changed to Sarah, and she is blessed. Isaac is promised, and the time of his birth fixed. Abraham and Ishmael are circumcised. A.M. 2107. B.C. 1897. was. the Lord. Almighty. walk. perfect. or, upright, or sincere.

God Almighty.{El shadday,} God Almighty; for {shadday} is evidently of affinity with the Arabic {shadid,} strong, mighty, and {shiddat,} strength, might; so the LXX. in Job render it [panto krator,] Vulgate, in Pentateuch, {Omnipotens,} and Syriac, in Job, {chasino.}

Ge 17:1; 28:3; 35:11; 48:3

but by my name.If Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, did not know the name Jehovah, then Moses must have used it in Genesis by prolepsis, or anticipation. Mr. Locke and others read it interrogatively, for the negative particle, {lo,} not, has frequently this power in Hebrew: "I appeared unto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, and by my name Jehovah was I not also made known unto them?"

JEHOVAH.

3:14; Ge 12:7,8; 13:18; 22:14; Ps 68:4

JAH.

Ps 83:18; Isa 42:8; 44:6; 52:5,6; Joh 8:58; Re 1:4

2 Corinthians 6:18

a Father.

Ps 22:30; Jer 3:19; 31:1,9; Ho 1:9,10; Joh 1:12; Ro 8:14-17,29

Ga 3:26; 4:5-7; Eph 1:5; 1Jo 3:1,2; Re 21:7

the Lord.

Ge 17:1; 48:3; Re 1:8; 21:22