What does the Hebrew name for God "El Shaddai" mean translated into English?

Please explain what the name really means and where you got your answer. I've already tried wikipedia and wasn't happy with their answer. I'd love to hear from someone who is truely knowledgable on the subject of the Old Covenant names of God. Feel free to tell me as many of them as you know and their true meanings. Thanks

What does the Hebrew name for God "El Shaddai" mean translated into English?
It is usually translated as "God Almighty." El means God. Shaddai is sometimes said to mean a Mountain, and so sometimes it is said that El Shaddai means God of the Mountains. This might refer to the fact that God was seen by Moses on Mt. Sinai.
Reply:God who is enough
Reply:EL=ALMIGHTY GOD


SHADDAI= ALL SUFFICENCY
Reply:pwacheri,


I've also heard it translated, "The Many Breasted One."
Reply:"El Shaddai" is a title identifying Jehovah.





A person may have the title "Worlds Greatest Athlete" but that is not his name.





This title of God Almighty in the bible only refers to Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, %26amp; Jacob.





At Gen. 4:1 shows that Eve knew the name of Jehovah.
Reply:El Shaddai is the mountain god. The name comes from before Judaism and refers to El, the father of all the other gods (the Elohim). His favourite son is the one usually referred to as Ba'al Hadad, the storm God with lightning and Bulls Horns (also a god of fertility, possibly by association with rainstorms for crops) usually associated with the golden calf.


El (shaddai) fills about the same position as Zeus
Reply:Shaddai means Almighty and El Shaddai means God Almighty.
Reply:EL means GOD-( mighty-strong-prominent)


Gen 7:1 %26amp; Isa 9:6





EL Shaddai means:( God Almighty or God all sufficient) Gen 49:24 %26amp; Micah 2:1


Hope this answers your question
Reply:The God that is more than enough. The all sufficient one. The Breasty one. Check out the song:





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfboU8LSO...





I Cr 13;8a


10-25-6
Reply:Seems very thorough to me!





The name Shaddai (Hebrew: שַׁדַּי), which occurs both independently and in combination with El, is used as a name of God chiefly in the Book of Job. According to Exodus 6:2, 3, this is the name by which God was known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In the Septuagint and other early translation it was translated with words meaning 'Almighty'.





The root word "shadad" (שדד) means "to overpower" or "to destroy". This would give Shaddai the meaning of "destroyer" as one of the aspects of God. Compare to "Shiva," the destroyer in the Hindu trinity, "creator, preserver, destroyer".





Another theory is that 'Shaddai' is a derivation of a Semitic stem that appears in the Akkadian shadû, 'mountain', and shaddā`û or shaddû`a, 'mountain-dweller'. This theory was popularized by W. F. Albright but was somewhat weakened when it was noticed that the doubling of the medial d is first documented only in the Neo-Assyrian period. However, the doubling in Hebrew might possibly be secondary. In this theory God is seen as inhabiting a mythical holy mountain: a concept not unknown in ancient near eastern mythology (see El), and also evident in the Syriac Christian writings of Ephrem the Syrian, who places Eden on an inaccessible mountaintop.





An alternative view proposed by Albright is that the name is connected to shadayim which means breasts in Hebrew. It may thus be connected to the notion of God’s fertility and blessings of the human race. In several instances it is connected with fruitfulness: “May God Almighty [El Shaddai] bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers . . .” (Gen. 28:3). “I am God Almighty [El Shaddai]: be fruitful and increase in number” (Gen. 35:11). “By the Almighty [El Shaddai] who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts [shadayim] and of the womb [racham] ” (Gen. 49:25).





It is also given a Midrashic interpretation as an acronym standing for 'Guardian of the Doors of Israel' (Hebrew: שׁוֹמֶר דְלָתוֹת יִשְׂרָאֶל), which is commonly found as carvings or writings upon the Mezuzah, a vessel which houses a scroll of parchment with Biblical text written on it, that is situated upon all the doorframes in a home or establishment.





Shaddai was also a late Bronze age, Amorite city on the banks of the Euphrates river, in northern Syria. The site of its ruin-mound is called Tell eth-Thadyen: "Thadyen" being the modern Arabic rendering of the original West Semitic "Shaddai." It has been conjectured that El Shaddai was therefore the "god of Shaddai" and associated in tradition with Abraham, and the inclusion of the Abraham stories into the Hebrew Bible may have brought the northern name with them