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God is addressed as Adonai, which means Lord or Master, around 400 times throughout the Old Testament. It occurs over 200 times just in the book of Ezekiel!
Adonai simply means Lord or Master. It was used often to replace the holy name Yahweh. For me, one of the most beautiful things about this name is that the person who is calling God, Adonai, is voluntarily surrendering to His Lordship by calling Him Master.
I don’t think it is just a matter of semantics. There can be a person who is lord over another person, but unless the subjuct submits to this lordship and allows his lord to also be his master, then there is only a mechanical tie. The Lordship of Adonai goes beyond this to a complete submission of will and love to Adonai.
Books of Moses (Torah)
And Abram said Lord God [Adonai Jehovah], what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? Genesis 15:2
And he said, Lord God [Adonai Jehovah], whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? Genesis 15:8
And said, My Lord [Adonai], if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant … Genesis 18:3
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord [Adonai], which am but dust and ashes … Genesis 18:27
And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord [Adonai] be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. Genesis 18:30
And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord [Adonai]: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake. Genesis 18:31
And he said, Oh let not the Lord [Adonai] be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake. Genesis 18:32
But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord [Adonai], wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? Genesis 20:4
And Moses said unto the Lord [Jehovah], O my Lord [Adonai], I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. Exodus 4:10
And he said, O my Lord [Adonai], send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. Exodus 4:13
And Moses returned unto the Lord [Jehovah], and said, Lord [Adonai], wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me? Exodus 5:22
Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord [Jehovah], which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord [Adonai], which thy hands have established. Exodus 15:17
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God [Adonai Jehovah]. Exodus 23:17
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord [Adonai], let my Lord [Adonai], I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance. Exodus 34:9
And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord [Adonai] be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying … Numbers 14:17
O Lord God [Adonai Jehovah], thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God [El] is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? Deuteronomy 3:24
I prayed therefore unto the Lord [Adonai], and said, O Lord God [Adonai Jehovah], destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Deuteronomy 9:26
For the Lord [Adonai] your God [El] is God [El] of gods [elohim], and Lord [Adonai] of lords [adon], a great God [El], a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward … Deuteronomy 10:17
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