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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hebrew Names |
 | | In the former case, the Divine name is the subject of the verb (Elisama, "God heard"; Jonathan, "Yahweh gave"); in the latter the Divine name may be regarded again as the subject, and the noun as the predicate (Elisua, "God is salvation"). |
 | | Not only the name of the true God, but also names of some of foreign deities, especially Adon, Baal, Melek, entered into the composition of names taken by Hebrews at a period when the relations of God's people with their neighbours were most intimate. |
 | | 0n the other hand, Adonias and Malachias cannot mean "Adon is Yahweh" or "Melek is Yahweh", because, unlike 'El, Yah is never appellative; in these words, Adon, and Melek are common nouns, and the compounds are equivalent respectively to "Yahweh is master" and "Yahwveh is king". |
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