Thus, a more accurate English rendering would be "Hear Israel Y'hovah our Gods nonpareil Y'hovah." The hearer is left to ponder the mean of the plural being used with superstar:
0259 'echad {ekhawd'}: a numeral. 1) one (number) 1a) one (number) 1b) each, every 1c) a certain 1d) an (indefinite article) 1e) only, once, once for all 1f) one...another, the one...the other, one after another, one by one 1g) counterbalance 1h) eleven (in combination), eleventh (ordinal) [Online].
If "'echad" means one, what is a man to do with "Elohiym," which means many?
This contradiction produced a shift in meaning for the word Elohiym:
0430 'elohiym {eloheem'} plural of 433; 1) (plural) 1a) rulers, adjudicate
Other definitions provided by the Online Bible:
3478 Yisra'el {yisrawale'} Israel = "God prevails" 1) the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel 2) the name of the descendants and the nation of the descendants of Jacob 2a) the name of the nation until the destruction of Solomon and the split 2b) the name used and given to the northern farming consisting of the 10 tribes under Jeroboam; the southern kingdom was cognize as Judah 2c) the name of the nation after the return from exile
What Deuteronomy 6:4 says about monotheism is therefore what Christianity says about monotheism, that there is one God, but that this one God exists eternally in terzetto persons. There are not three Gods, as the Israelites were told by God Himself, but "one God." Yet, His existence is as a threesome Who share all attributes but not all roles. But it is not a matter of changing hats, either, as the "Spirit of God searches the mind of God" ( 1 Corinthians 2:11) and the Son prays to the Father (Matthew 26:39). Rather, it is the incomprehensible and eternal coupling of the Godhead.
Strong, James, LL.D., S.T.D. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. Montrose, Ontario, Canada: Woodside Bible Fellowship, 1991.
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