Genesis 15:2
And Lifted Up Father is saying, `My lord He is, what do you give to me, and myself he who walks stripped bare? And the builder of Runner of my house, himself is God of Help of Alertness/Haste.`
And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what will You give to me since I am going childless and the son of the inheritance of my house is Eleazar of Damascus?
But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
And Abram said, Master and Lord, what wilt thou give me? whereas I am departing without a child, but the son of Masek my homeborn female slave, this Eliezer of Damascus is mine heir.
Footnotes
| 554 | Adonaiאֲדֹנָי Strong’s #136, אֲדֹנָי adonay. Tradition made this a proper title. The concrete meaning however is clear according to Gesenius who writes, “The termination ־ַי is an older form of pluralis excellentiœ, for the common ־ִים (as in שַׁדַּי) …but for ־ַי, the lengthened form ־ָי has been put by the grammarians, so as to distinguish it from אֲדֹנַי ‘my masters.’” What this means is that the plural form was taken to be a formal title and the Masoretes modified a vowel point to make the distinction. But originally there was no distinction. The word then became the traditional word to use to refer to God or Yahweh in speech as it was considered a taboo to utter the name. Even to write out the Anglo word “God” is taken as a no-no, so instead they write or type “G-d”. This is also the case with אֵ֣ל שַׁדַּי “el Shaddai” which means god of destroyers. See note on Genesis 17:1. |
| 555 | Strong’s #6185, ariri. Stripped, childless. From the root arar (#6209) to strip oneself. |
| 556 | Strong’s #461, Eliezer, el is help. The word “meshek” is a rare word only here and as a part of Dammashek, which is related to Damascus. Gesenius opines, “I judge that the sacred writer used meshek, an uncommon word, in order to allude to the word Dammeshek” Gesenius Hebrew Lexicon (1846). Meshek is sometimes interpreted as possession. |