Hi Tamar,

>> Later on the word 'YHVH' is often joined with other words to describe 'pieces' or 'traits' of God. (Here I'll switch to the Anglisized spelling) Jehovah-jirah, Jehovah-tsidknu, Jehovah-nissi for example. Then there's Jehovah-shalom, which you might interpret as "Jehovah our peace", where 'shalom' is the Hebrew for peace. The others are concepts like righteousness, truth, etc..
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>Sorry, Doug, but YHVH-Shalom wouldn't translate as "God our peace," but as "God _of_ peace." For there to be any sense of "our," you'd need to see a "nu" ending. For example, many Hebrew prayers include the word "Eloheinu," usually translated as "our God."

I guess I wasn't as clear as I meant. As I mentioned in another portion of this thread the combination of the name plus what I'd call the trait (poor choice of words perhaps) is that the eseence of that trait was perfectly exemplified in the nature of God. Perhaps more clearley would be "God peace" or anglicized as "God is peace" (righteousness, provider, holiness, love, etc) The two portions of the thought are inextricably bound together. You're quite correct that our English suffers. <s>

I suppose I'd also need to point out that this is a little bit hair-splitting and also guessing on all of our parts. How can finite define or understand infinite anyways? <g>

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>I'd also argue that the other items you list shouldn't be hyphenated. They're the writer described God, but the Hebrew has no sense of equivalence between the name and the trait.

No argument from me. I used the hyphen to try and tie the two words together, as you suggested they were above.

Thanks for the editor's eye! <g>