Biblica Analytica
H5996 Hebrew

עַמִּישַׁדָּ֑י

am.mi.shad.day

Ammishaddai

Lexicon Entry

Definition
Ammishaddai
Transliteration
am.mi.shad.day
Strong's Number
H5996
Occurrences
5
Semantic Domain
Proper Name: Person

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

What Original Readers Understood

Explored

Ammishaddai, represented by the Hebrew word עַמִּישַׁדָּ֑י (H5996), appears in the Bible five times and is a proper name denoting a person. The transliteration am.mi.shad.day gives us a clue about its possible composition. It is likely a composite name consisting of "ammim" (people) and "shaddai," likely related to the name El-Shaddai (Gen 17:1), which means "the one who is powerful or all-encompassing." Ammishaddai's significance may be related to its possible connection to El-Shaddai, given the shared root. However, without additional data, this connection remains speculative. What is clear is that Ammishaddai is used as a proper name throughout the Bible, indicating a specific person of importance in a particular narrative context. The limited occurrences of Ammishaddai in the Bible suggest it may be a minor character or a relatively unimportant name to the overall narrative. Nonetheless, the fact that it appears five times indicates a level of prominence, although the extent to which it is significant is unclear without more context.

Source data & methodology
Strong's
H5996
Lemma
עַמִּישַׁדָּ֑י
Transliteration
am.mi.shad.day
Definition
Ammishaddai
Occurrences
5
Model
groq
Prompt version
1

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Occurrences in Scripture

5 total occurrences across the text