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A common name of God in the Hebrew Bible is Elohim (אלהים, ʾĕlōhīm), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ (Eloah). When Elohim refers to God in the Hebrew Bible, singular verbs are used.
Although the gender of God in Judaism is referred to in the Tanakh with masculine imagery and grammatical forms, traditional Jewish philosophy does not attribute the concept of sex to God. [1] At times, Jewish aggadic literature and Jewish mysticism do treat God as having a gender.
The use of the name Shimria/Shimriya has been authenticated in the record of a Jewish woman born Shimriya Yelin in 1917 in Damascus, Syria, one month after the death of her father, Shmaryahu Yelin (apparently Shimriya was named in memory of her father).
Asherah (/ ˈæʃərə /; [2] Hebrew: אֲשֵׁרָה, romanized: ʾĂšērā; Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎘𐎗𐎚, romanized: ʾAṯiratu; Akkadian: 𒀀𒅆𒋥, romanized: Aširat; [3] Qatabanian: 𐩱𐩻𐩧𐩩 ʾṯrt) [4] was a goddess in ancient Semitic religions. She also appears in Hittite writings as Ašerdu (s) or Ašertu (s) (Hittite: 𒀀𒊺𒅕𒌈, romanized: a-še-ir-tu4), [5] and as Athirat in Ugarit.
In contemporary Jewish discourse, the term shekhinah most commonly refers to the divine feminine, or to the feminine aspect of God — God as mother, nurturer, protector and compassionate one.
21 sie 2014 · Shekhinah, the ‘cloud of Yahweh’ in the Bible, a synonym for God’s presence in the rabbinic tradition, and a feminine hypostasis in the Kabbalah, is a popular theological image in contemporary Jewish feminist circles.
In the Bible, God has many other names. He is often described as Elohim, which simply means God. It is in fact, like , a plural form and is also, on occasions, used to refer to the pagan gods. When referring to the One Jewish God, the form Ha‑Elohim (the God) is often employed.
