Wrestling with G-d

Quick Glossary

Abba Judaism uses a variety of ways to refer to G-d without using his personal name. Abba is one of these. Abba is both an Aramaic and Mishniac Hebrew word meaning Father. This is used to emphasis relationship between G-d and his children.

Adonai means 'My Lords' in Hebrew. This title is used in place of the personal name of G-d (YHWH). Originally the vowels of Adonai were placed over the personal name. Christian translators unaware of the tradition erroneously came away with Jehovah being the personal name of G-d.

Christ means anointed. It is the Greek equivilant of the Hebrew word Mashiach (Messiah). For more see Messiah

Father, (The) see Abba

G-d Here we don't mean any ordinary 'god' but YHWH. Jewish people commonly insert a dash (-) to signify the taking out the vowels so that the name is not fully written. This is all in accordance to keeping the name holy and not misused or erased. I use it in the same way but with the extra function to let you the reader know that we are talking about G-d. The same is with the title L-rd. If I use 'lord' or 'Lord' we are not talking about G-d or we are simply giving an attribute of who he is (i.e. G-d is lord of all).

HaSatan Hebrew title meaning 'the Adversary.'

HaShem a round about way of referring to G-d that means 'The Name.'

Heaven a round about way of referring to G-d (i.e. I have sinned against Heaven)

Jesus See Yeshua

L-rd See G-d

Mashiach means 'anointed.' Kings and priests were 'messiahs' as they were literally anointed with oil to signify that they were set apart for G-d's purpose . When we say the Messiah, we specifically mean the future redeemer/savior of Israel.

Messiah See Mashiach

mitzvah pl. mitzvot commandments

Power, The a round about way of referring to G-d.

Tanakh acronym for Torah (Instruction) Nevi'im (Prophets) and Kethuvim (Writings). Commonly referred to by Christians as the Old Testament.

Torah also known as the Pentetuech, Five Books of Moses, or Law of Moses. Torah means teaching/instruction and is composed of the books Genesis through Deuteronomy and can only be understood properly by the Oral Torah.

Yeshua Commonly known as Jesus. The name Jesus is a Latinized Greek transliteration of Yeshua. Thus Yeshua becomes Iesous (Greek has no Y or SH sound, plus it has rules about the endings of words, even nouns), which becomes Iesus in Latin (it used to be pronounced Yesus but the beginning 'i' developed into our modern j sound). Yeshua itself is a contraction of the name Yehoshua (Joshua). Yeshua means 'salvation.'