El, Eloh, Elohim, Ilah, Allah, Ulu...

#29    13th August 2007, 04:40 PM

Aoyama  Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Tokyo and Paris Native language: 仏(佛)/法語 (Clodoaldien) Posts: 3,562

Re: El, Eloh, Elohim, Ilah, Allah, Ulu... To me, El, Eloh, Elohim, Ilah, Allah, Ulu (but for Ulu, I can't say for sure) all come originally from the root meaning above , still found in the name of Israel's national airlines (El Al = on and on/above and above). This is different from the concept of God (or Dieu, Dio etc coming from Deus/Zeus, of pagan origin). Here, basically, El -in Hebrew-just means "(what is) above" (like in Japanese Kami or Chinese Shang di, and probably many other languages where "above" renders the meaning of divinity), a meaning that you can also find in the word élite . more  Sometimes El is translated by idol(s) , to differentiate it from Elohim. Arguable. Jesus will say (?) Eli, lama sabactani (aramaic), here Eli = my God ...