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El-elohe-Israel
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Concise Bible Dictionary: E
By:
George A. Morrish
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Chris Genthree
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The name given by Jacob to the altar he erected near Shechem. God had just before altered his name into Israel, “a prince of God”; Jacob connected the blessing involved in this name with a piece of land he bought, instead of with God’s house at Bethel, and calls the altar he had erected “God, the God of Israel” (
Gen. 32:28
28
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. (Genesis 32:28)
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Gen. 33:20
20
And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel. (Genesis 33:20)
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