El Roi

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El Roi is one of the biblical names of God represented by the Hebrew Bible.

Contents 1 Different understandings 1.1 Hebrew and Christian Bible 2 other sources 3 other uses of 'El

[edit] Different understandings

[edit] Hebrew and Christian Bible

As with El Bethel, El 'Olam, El Shadday, El Berith, Elohim and numerous other formations in the Bible as translated into English, El Roi is a descriptive epithet for god using the word "El" for "God" and another modifier indicating a quality of God.

In the Hebrew bible book of Genesis, Hagar called the divine protagonist, El Roi. Roi means “seeing". To Hagar, God revealed Himself as “The God Who sees".

Hagar is a distraught, frightened, pregnant, non-Israelite slave girl who encounters God in a desert, and feeling she has been miracuously aided by Him, calls him this name. It is possible that the construction using 'el' and the specific construction 'el roi' is drawn from Hagar's cultural understanding of and name for god rather than being an Israelite construction.

El Roi: The name El means “God, god, mighty one, strength". It is used to denote “either the generic name ‘god’ or ‘the God’ of Israel". In some instances of a significant encounter with Elohim, believers would form a compound of El and a word which described God’s revelation of Himself in that encounter.

[edit] other sources

roi is the god of the well.

ENTRY: ry. DEFINITION: West Semitic, to see. rai, perhaps from dialectal Arabic (h ar-)ray, (here is the) view, from ray, view, opinion, from ra, to see.

In the story of Abraham in the Pentateuch, or book of the law, el roi presents the view of Hagar in fleeing from the sharia law of Sarah. Hagar is Egyptian. Her Egyptian name is Hotep which in Egyptian means the written law. The phrase m hotep means in law is peace. Her semitic root ha= the, gar = read is the same as that used in the Koran

ENTRY: qr. DEFINITION: To call (out), read, summon. Koran; Alcoran, from Arabic (al-)qurn, (the) reading, Koran, from qaraa, to read, recite.

The legal sense of the story is thus to argue the legitimacy of the precedents to the ten commandments as the inheritance of Abraham.

[edit] other uses of 'El

Jacob called the place where God had revealed Himself to him personally El Bethel. Bethel means “house". This geographical location became to Jacob “The House of God.�?

Abraham called Him El ‘Olam. ‘Olam means “everlasting". God had revealed Himself to Abraham as being the eternal, everlasting God.

In the book of Judges is found the name El Berith. Berith means “covenant".

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