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Genesis 33

Gen. 33:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he erected
natsab (Hebrew #5324)
to station, in various applications (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: appointed, deputy, erect, establish, X Huzzah (by mistake for a proper name), lay, officer, pillar, present, rear up, set (over, up), settle, sharpen, establish, (make to) stand(-ing, still, up, upright), best state.
Pronounce: naw-tsab'
Origin: a prim root
there an altar
mizbeach (Hebrew #4196)
an altar
KJV usage: altar.
Pronounce: miz-bay'-akh
Origin: from 2076
c, and called it
qara' (Hebrew #7121)
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(- ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
Pronounce: kaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 7122 through the idea of accosting a person met)
ρEl-elohe-Israel
'El (Hebrew #415)
the mighty god if Jisrael; El-Elohi-Jisrael, the title given to a consecrated spot by Jacob
KJV usage: El-elohe-israel.
Pronounce: 'elohey
Origin: from 410 and 430 and 3478
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Gen. 35:7• 7And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God had appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother. (Gen. 35:7)
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God the God of Israel.

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Altar,
Elelohe-Israel; Eleloheisrael

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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altar.
Gen. 8:20• 20And Noah built an altar to Jehovah; and took of every clean animal, and of all clean fowl, and offered up burnt-offerings on the altar. (Gen. 8:20)
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Gen. 12:7‑8• 7And Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah who had appeared to him.
 8And he removed thence towards the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel toward the west, and Ai toward the east; and there he built an altar to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah. (Gen. 12:7‑8)
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Gen. 13:18• 18Then Abram moved his tents, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron. And he built there an altar to Jehovah. (Gen. 13:18)
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Gen. 21:33• 33And Abraham planted a tamarisk in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Eternal *God. (Gen. 21:33)
El-elohe-Israel.
i.e., God, the God of Israel.
Gen. 32:28• 28And he said, Thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast wrestled with God, and with men, and hast prevailed. (Gen. 32:28)
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Gen. 35:7• 7And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God had appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother. (Gen. 35:7)
• The name by which he calls his altar is indicative of the moral condition of his soul. He calls it “El-elohe-Israel,” or “God, the God of Israel.” This was taking a very contracted view of God. True, it is our privilege to know God as our God; but it is a higher thing to know Him as the God of His own house, and to view ourselves as part of that house. (“Genesis 33-34” by C.H. Mackintosh)
• In setting up an altar, where he first spread his tent in the promised land, he was undoubtedly right. (“Jacob: 13. Succoth and Shechem” by W. Kelly)
• “God, the God of Israel” (ver. 20) did not rise up to the due patriarchal title of relationship; it was not promise, but his own measure of experience. It was short of Bethel; and Jacob must go through more and more humbling experience, and God must dislodge him from settling on the field he had purchased from the Hivite, to bring him to the place of his vow, where he would make an altar to God that appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother. Not even yet were the strange gods that defiled his household put away. How could there be true communion till then? Yet there was unfailing, patient, and tender mercy. (“Jacob: 16. Succoth and Shechem” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And there he set up an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israelf.

JND Translation Notes

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*God, the *God of Israel.

W. Kelly Translation

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And he set up there an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.